simple perl program in python gives errors

[Christoph Haas]

On Monday 30 January 2006 17:52, squash at peoriadesignweb.com wrote:
> I am a little annoyed at why such a simple program in Perl  is causing
> so much difficulty for python, i.e:
>
> $a += 200000 * 140000;
>
> print $a;

a = 0
a += 200000 * 140000
print a

Seems to be more a problem for you than for Python.

 Christoph

P.S.: Xah, is that you?
P.P.S.: You should have told what's going wrong.
P.P.P.S.: Variables are not automatically initialised in Python.
          And you shouldn't even rely on that in Perl.
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