On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Robert <rxjw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just notice that there is a slash character (\) before the if line.
> What is it for?
Yes, that's important. The entire line of code is:
plt.xlabel("$p$, probability of heads") \
if k in [0, len(n_trials) - 1] else None
The backslash means "this continues on the next line". The ternary
conditional looks like this:
5 if 1 < 2 else 7
Since 1 < 2, this has the value of 5. If not, it would have the value 7.
But the expression result isn't even used. So this is better written:
if k in [0, len(n_trials) - 1]:
plt.xlabel("$p$, probability of heads")
ChrisA
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
