<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>2.5 Operators</title> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="2.5 Operators"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="ref"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset="> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="ref.css"> <link rel="first" href="ref.html"> <link rel="contents" href="contents.html" title="Contents"> <link rel="index" href="genindex.html" title="Index"> <LINK REL="next" href="delimiters.html"> <LINK REL="previous" href="literals.html"> <LINK REL="up" href="lexical.html"> <LINK REL="next" href="delimiters.html"> </head> <body> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A href="imaginary.html"><img src="../icons/previous.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="lexical.html"><img src="../icons/up.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="delimiters.html"><img src="../icons/next.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Python Reference Manual</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="../icons/contents.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><img src="../icons/blank.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="" width="32"></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="../icons/index.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="imaginary.html">2.4.6 Imaginary literals</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="lexical.html">2. Lexical analysis</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="delimiters.html">2.6 Delimiters</A> <br><hr> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION004500000000000000000"> </A><a name="l2h-16"> </a> <BR> 2.5 Operators </H1> <P> The following tokens are operators: <P> <dl><dd><pre class="verbatim"> + - * ** / // % << >> & | ^ ~ < > <= >= == != <> </pre></dl> <P> The comparison operators <code><></code> and <code>!=</code> are alternate spellings of the same operator. <code>!=</code> is the preferred spelling; <code><></code> is obsolescent. <P> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <p><hr> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A href="imaginary.html"><img src="../icons/previous.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="lexical.html"><img src="../icons/up.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="delimiters.html"><img src="../icons/next.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Python Reference Manual</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="../icons/contents.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><img src="../icons/blank.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="" width="32"></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="../icons/index.gif" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="imaginary.html">2.4.6 Imaginary literals</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="lexical.html">2. Lexical analysis</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="delimiters.html">2.6 Delimiters</A> <hr> <span class="release-info">Release 2.2, documentation updated on December 21, 2001.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> See <i><a href="about.html">About this document...</a></i> for information on suggesting changes. </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>