Bengt Richter wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:12:24 +0200, Juho Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Last month I spent about an hour trying to explain why >>a*2.5e-8 = x >>raises a SyntaxError and why it should be written >>x = a*2.5e-8 >>The guy who wrote the 1st line has MSc in Physics from Cambridge (UK). >>In mathematics, there is no difference between the two lines. > > > ISTM probable that his original equation was really saying > assert a*2.5e-8 == x > which is not very different from > assert x == a*2.5e-8 > > Did you mention that "=" is not "==" in python? > I too would resist the idea that > assert a*2.5e-8 == x > "should be written as" > x = a*2.5e-8 > > Regards, > Bengt Richter
He tried to assing 2.5e-8 times value of variable a to variable x. It had nothing to do with testing equality or asserting. It is just that he had absolutely no programming skills at all. However, he is learning quite fast. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
