list initialize with ?

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Sat Jun 30 08:15:29 EDT 2018


On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 04:50:10 -0700, Sharan Basappa wrote:

> Can anyone explain to me what the ? does here:
> 
> ignore_words = ['?']

Its a question mark inside a string, which is inside a list. You can put 
anything you like in strings:

    'a'

    'abcde'

even punctuation like '?'. Then you can put the string inside a list.

What you do with it, I have no idea -- presumably its your code.


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