On Monday 30 January 2006 17:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am a little annoyed at why such a simple program in Perl is causing > so much difficulty for python, i.e: > > $a += 200000 * 140000; > > print $a;
a = 0 a += 200000 * 140000 print a Seems to be more a problem for you than for Python. Christoph P.S.: Xah, is that you? P.P.S.: You should have told what's going wrong. P.P.P.S.: Variables are not automatically initialised in Python. And you shouldn't even rely on that in Perl. -- Never trust a system administrator who wears a tie and suit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list