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Abrar Malik
788 Pointsnew_item
What does new_item = (">") do. Please put in simple terms.
2 Answers
man odell
1,905 Pointsnew_item = (">") # it saves it same as any character or string like -
new_item = '>'
new_item ='TreeHouse'
James Bennett
445 PointsThe way i understood it was that (">") was used just to give "new_item" something to contain until it was actually given something from your code.