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Re: [pygame] Axelay-like background scroll getting operand error

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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:48:50 -0700
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2009/7/21 Henrique Nakashima <henrique.nakashima@xxxxxxxxx>

In Python, exponentiation can be done with the ** operand (2 ** 3 returns 8). I don't know whether that is different in any way from pow(2, 3), but help(pow) says it's the same.

It's not really different, but it can have a modulus argument, which is faster than (x**y)%z

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