On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:19 AM, spir <denis.s...@free.fr> wrote: > Why not '!' for not, instead of '~'? I mean, '!' is used in logic, in many > languages and even in python (!=). On the other hand, I had never encountered > '~' meaning not.
Although ! is indeed usual in computer languages, I disagree when you say it is used in logic. There to my knowledge the standard is ¬, with ~ being used if one wants to remain within easily-accessible character sets. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
