Re: "**" in python

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Subject	Re: "**" in python
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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

var = 42
var ** 2

and see what happened. It's unlikely to trigger a nuclear meltdown, or even
crash the interpreter.

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Re: "**" in python Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2014-11-23 19:48 -0600
  Re: "**" in python llanitedave <llanitedave@birdandflower.com> - 2014-11-23 18:30 -0800
  Re: "**" in python Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-24 04:47 +0000
    Re: "**" in python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-24 16:18 +1100
  Re: "**" in python albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-12-15 10:33 +0000
    Re: "**" in python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-12-15 22:31 +1100

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