What does colon equal (:=) in Python mean? - Stack Overflow 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 implementation Some notes about psuedocode: := is the assignment operator or = in Python = is the equality operator or == in Python There are certain styles, and your mileage may vary:
python - What does the caret (^) operator do? - Stack Overflow 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 exponentiation I think it's a good illustrative example of how it simply calls the __xor__ method, but to do that for real would be bad practice
python - What is the purpose of the -m switch? - Stack Overflow 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 modules such as pdb and profile, and the Python 2 4 implementation is fine for this limited purpose