david said unto the world upon 2005-12-10 06:31: > ::= is bnf notation for "is defined as" > > please spend that extra minute googling before > you bother all the nice people on this list. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: david > To: tutor@python.org > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 6:23 AM > > > hello everyone. i was looking at python docs and i came across this > > letter ::= > lowercase | uppercase > > > what does ::= mean?
David, goodness knows, maillists and usenet would be better if more people (myself included) would do a better job of their own googling. But, I'm not sure that your comment is fair in this context. Maybe my google-fu is lacking, but googling for ::= or "::=" doesn't produce anything. Google doesn't seem to handle non-alphanumeric search terms too well. If you know how to make google yield useful results for '::=' I'd appreciate the lesson. Best, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
