On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Krister Svanlund <krister.svanl...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Matty Sarro <msa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > Just curious - I'm working on a program which includes a calculation of a > > circle, and I found myself trying to use pi*radius^2, and getting errors > > that data types float and int are unsupported for "^". Now, I realized I > was > > making the mistake of using '^' instead of "**". I've corrected this and > its > > now working. However, what exactly does ^ do? I know its used in regular > > expressions but I can't seem to find anything about using it as an > operator. > > Sadly my google foo is failing since the character gets filtered out. > > It's a binary operator i think... something like xor. > Yes. Infact '^' is binary XOR. >>> a = 4 >>> bin(a) '0b100' >>> b = 5 >>> bin(b) '0b101' >>> a ^ b 1 100 ^ 101 = 001 > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- ~l0nwlf
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