Two question from a newbie

[Fredrik Lundh]

Peter Bittner <bittneph at aston.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've got two simple questions:
>
>  1.) How do I implement ORs and ANDs in an if-statment?
>
>    - e.g. I'd like to have this C-code in Python:
>
>    if (x.mode == "view" || x.mode == "modify")
>       myMode = x.mode;
>
>   2.) What does str(...) do?  (I've already posted this, sorry!)
>
> I've seen
>       print '....' + str(text) + '...'
> in some code (in a function definition).
> What does this 'str(...)' really do? - Is it absolutely necessary??
>
> Please, e-mail!

newbies have been known to read the
fine manual:

http://www.python.org/doc

start with the tutorial.  browse the language reference.
then the read the first chapters in the library manual
(covering builtin operations).

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