Hi Anil, Are you reading a tutorial? Most of the questions you are asking should be covered in any standard tutorial.
> what does > > x**x) do? Its equivalent to pow(x,x) ie raises x to the power x. > 2nd) what is the key for the dictionary, i assume x is the value of > the dictionary > dict((x, x**x) for x in range(10)) x is the key and x**x is the value. HTH, Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor