Assignment Operators

Assignment Operators:

a=10 # here = is assignment operator, value 10 is stored in left-hand side variable ‘a’. Now the value of variable ‘a’ is 10.

Definition: Assignment operators are used to assigning the value to the left-hand side variable.

Example:

Ex(1)10=a #Error because variable always should be left-hand side.

Ex(2)

a=10

b=20

a=b # It is valid here b means value i.e 20 of the variable b

Difference between = and ==?

a=10

b=20

=	==
a=b	a==b
i.e we are assigning the value of variable ‘b’ to left hand side variable ‘a’	We comparing two variables, which returns Boolean True/False
Print(a)	print(a==b) or print(b==a) # compares, we get result True or false
Output: 20	Output: True

a+=10 or a=a+10

Shortcut Assignment Operators:

Ex:

a=20

>>> a+=10 #a=a+10àa=20+10àa=30

>>> print(a)

30

>>> 

We can combine assignment operators with some other operator to form a compound assignment operators or shortcut assignment operators

+=

-=

*=

/=

%=

//=

**=

&=

|=

The above is the list of all possible compound operators.

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