Jun 16, 2012 · 1 You can use the != operator to check for inequality. Moreover in Python 2 there was <> operator which used to do the same thing, but it has been deprecated in Python 3.

Mar 21, 2010 · There is no bitwise negation in Python (just the bitwise inverse operator ~ - but that is not equivalent to not). See also 6.6. Unary arithmetic and bitwise/binary operations and …

Mar 21, 2023 · In Python this is simply =. To translate this pseudocode into Python you would need to know the data structures being referenced, and a bit more of the algorithm …

Python 2.4 adds the command line switch -m to allow modules to be located using the Python module namespace for execution as scripts. The motivating examples were standard library …

I know that I can use something like string[3:4] to get a substring in Python, but what does the 3 mean in somesequence[::3]?

Apr 25, 2017 · 1 In python 2.6 the '%' operator performed a modulus. I don't think they changed it in 3.0.1 The modulo operator tells you the remainder of a division of two numbers.

Jul 21, 2010 · Why is it 'better' to use my_dict.keys() over iterating directly over the dictionary? Iteration over a dictionary is clearly documented as yielding keys. It appears you had Python 2 …

Python slicing is a computationally fast way to methodically access parts of your data. In my opinion, to be even an intermediate Python programmer, it's one aspect of the language that it …

Mar 20, 2013 · Working on a python assignment and was curious as to what [:-1] means in the context of the following code: instructions = f.readline()[:-1] Have searched on here on S.O. …

Dec 3, 2008 · How do I pad a numeric string with zeroes to the left, so that the string has a specific length?