Mar 4, 2013 · However, Python 3 changed the behavior of / to perform floating-point division even if the arguments are integers. The // operator was introduced in Python 2.6 and Python 3 to provide an …

Apr 3, 2014 · The other case involving print >>obj, "Hello World" is the "print chevron" syntax for the print statement in Python 2 (removed in Python 3, replaced by the file argument of the print() function).

Side note, seeing as Python defines this as an xor operation and the method name has "xor" in it, I would consider it a poor design choice to make that method do something not related to xor like …

Aug 10, 2010 · In Python 3, your example range (N) [::step] produces a range object, not a list. To really see what is happening, you need to coerce the range to a list, np.array, etc.

The problem with the later is (aside from the leading-space), depending on the Python implementation, the Python interpreter will have to make a new copy of the string in memory every time you append …

What does += do in Python? I also would appreciate links to definitions of other shorthand tools in Python.

Functions, in Python, are first class objects - which means you can pass a function as an argument to another function, and return functions. Decorators do both of these things. If we stack decorators, the …

Nov 11, 2025 · 1 As MarkyPython already said. Assignment means you use the = to assign the value on the right side to a variable a on the left side. a=10 means that a is equal to 10 from here on. The …

Does * have a special meaning in Python as it does in C? I saw a function like this in the Python Cookbook: def get (self, *a, **kw) Would you please explain it to me or point out where I can find an

Aug 5, 2010 · What does the >> operator do? For example, what does the following operation 10 >> 1 = 5 do?