Stef Mientki wrote: > but I can;t find the answer ;-) > > As searching for the '$' sign doesn't work well in the help files, > I can not find out, where is the '$' sign used for. > > If I try to use it in names, > I get a compiler error, > so it probably has some special meaning. > > thanks, > Stef Mientki > The $ is not used in any Python syntax. Neither in variable names nor any syntactical construct.
Of course, like any character, it can be used in strings. (And some packages, like re, will make special use of a $ in a string.) Gary Herron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
