Operators, Delimiters, and Special Symbols
The following operators are recognized:
+ - * ** / // % << >> & | ^ ~ < > <= >= == != <> += -= *= /= //= %= **= &= |= ^= >>= <<=
The following tokens serve as delimiters for expressions, lists, dictionaries, and various parts of a statement:
( ) [ ] { } , : . ` = ;
For example, the equal (=) character serves as a delimiter between the name and value of an assignment, whereas the comma (,) character is used to delimit arguments to a function, elements in lists and tuples, and so on. The period (.) is also used in floating-point numbers and in the ellipsis (...) used in extended slicing operations.
Finally, the following special symbols are also used:
' " # \ @
The characters $ and ? have no meaning ...
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