On Sunday, November 23, 2014 5:49:05 PM UTC-8, Skip Montanaro wrote: > 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. > > Skip
I dunno, if it took 7.5 million years to come up with the answer in the first place, imagine how long it might take to square it! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
