"ðÏ" <littlesweetmelon at gmail.com> writes: > I saw a strange python code in pygame project. What does "while > not(x&528or x in l):" mean? Below code works in python2.5, so "x&528" > is not HTML strings. It parses as "x & 528 or x in l". Looks like it came from http://www.pygame.org/project/833/ and is an attempt to squash the program to as few bytes as possible.