In article <[email protected]>,
Skip Montanaro <[email protected]> wrote:
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>I want to add one more thing to the other responses. People new to Python
>often seem unaware that being an interpreted language, often the best way
>to figure something out is to simply try it at the interpreter prompt. The
>OP saw "var ** 2" in done code. The most obvious thing to me would have
>been to type
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>var = 42
>var ** 2
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>and see what happened. It's unlikely to trigger a nuclear meltdown, or even
>crash the interpreter.
>
>Skip
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With some perseverance, you can ask the interpreter what `` ** ''
does:
help(**)
<syntax error>
maybe so?
help('**')
Indeed, a whole description.
help(var)
help(42)
also work.
Come on, guys and dolls! Your advice to a newbies is soso,
if in this kind of answer, the help facilitiy is not
mentionned.
Groetjes Albert
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