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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:
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What does the "at" (@) symbol do in Python? - Stack Overflow
96 What does the “at” (@) symbol do in Python? @ symbol is a syntactic sugar python provides to utilize decorator, to paraphrase the question, It's exactly about what does decorator do in Python? Put it simple decorator allow you to modify a given function's definition without touch its innermost (it's closure).
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Is there a "not equal" operator in Python? - Stack Overflow
There's the != (not equal) operator that returns True when two values differ, though be careful with the types because "1" != 1. This will always return True and "1" == 1 will always return False, since the types differ. Python is dynamically, but strongly typed, and other statically typed languages would complain about comparing different types. There's also the else clause:
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mean in Python function definitions? - Stack Overflow
In Python 3.5 though, PEP 484 -- Type Hints attaches a single meaning to this: -> is used to indicate the type that the function returns. It also seems like this will be enforced in future versions as described in What about existing uses of annotations:
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slice - How slicing in Python works - Stack Overflow
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 is necessary to be familiar with.
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In Python, the use of an underscore in a function name indicates that the function is intended for internal use and should not be called directly by users. It is a convention used to indicate that the function is "private" and not part of the public API of the module.
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What does [:-1] mean/do in python? - Stack Overflow
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. and on Google but to no avail.
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What's the difference between "pip install" and "python -m pip install ...
By using python -m pip install --upgrade pip, or py -m pip install --upgrade pip instead, the problem is avoided, because now the wrapper executable does not run - Python (and possibly also py) runs, using code from the pip.py (or a cached pip.pyc) file.
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python - What does ** (double star/asterisk) and * (star/asterisk) do ...
See What do ** (double star/asterisk) and * (star/asterisk) mean in a function call? for the complementary question about arguments.