I am new to python. I have a few questions coming from an armature!

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-08-17, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> C uses "->" for dereferencing a pointer to the member of a struct.
>
> If "p" points to a struct (record), then "*p" is that struct, and if 
> that struct has a member (field) "m", then that member can be accessed 
> by "(*p)->m" (the parens are necessary because of the operator 
> precedence).

ITYM (*p).m

> This can be abbreviated to "p->m".
>
> Pascal, on the other hand, dereferences with a postfixed "^", so that 
> would be "p^.m".

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