Re: [Tutor] assignment sign definition

2015-12-01 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Tue, 01 Dec 2015 05:04:15 +, jo stone via Tutor writes: >Hello, >I am trying to teach myself Python, and got hung up on the definition of >Assignment signs...The explination I have is: >"A good way to understand the statement userAge = 0 is to think of it as >userAge <- 0." >

Re: [Tutor] assignment sign definition

2015-12-01 Thread Alan Gauld
On 01/12/15 05:04, jo stone via Tutor wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to teach myself Python, and got hung up on the definition of > Assignment signs... This is usually only a big problem for those who are strong in mathematics where = means that two things are equal in value and does not mean that

[Tutor] assignment sign definition

2015-12-01 Thread jo stone via Tutor
Hello, I am trying to teach myself Python, and got hung up on the definition of Assignment signs...The explination I have is: "A good way to understand the statement userAge = 0 is to think of it as userAge <- 0." I read this as "userAge is less than minus 0"    which make absolutely NO sense t