Silly newbie question - Carrot character (^)

[Nobody]

On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:12:05 -0400, Philip Semanchuk wrote:

> As others have said, ^ is for XOR. That's buried here in the
> documentation:
> http://docs.python.org/release/2.7/reference/...
> 
> Not that I would have expected you to find it there since that's pretty
> dense. In fact, older versions of the Python doc used to describe this
> section as "for language lawyers" but I see they've changed that now.

However, it's still written for language lawyers.

IMHO, the lack of a reference manual for the language itself is a major
hole in Python's documentation.