Pseudocode examples on Wikipedia usually use := as the assignment operator, like Pascal does (I haven’t found any counterexamples yet). You can’t use it in Python directly as it would be a SyntaxError: Use instead.
In all languages that support an operator := it means assignment. In languages that support an operator :=, the = operator usually means an equality comparison. In languages where = means assignment, == is typically used for equality comparison. does := mean =? I can’t recall any languages where := means the same as =. In MySQL := and = are both used for assignment, however they are not interchangeable and selecting the correct one … Read more