what does := means simply?

Fri May 18 20:03:29 EDT 2018

On Fri, 18 May 2018 22:53:06 +0100, bartc wrote:

> I've worked with text files for 40 years. Now Python is telling me I've
> been doing it wrong all that time!

Welcome to the 20th Century! We interchange text and data with
people from all over the world now, and one or two of them use
characters that aren't ASCII!

Start here:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/

or https://tinyurl.com/h8yg9d7

Then follow up with:

https://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html

-- 
Steve