But first, a little story to set the mood…

Once upon a time, there was this guy named Bob who loved programming in Python. He was pretty good at it too, but he always struggled with those ***** operators and assignments. One day, while sitting on his couch watching reruns of “The Office,” an idea struck him like lightning: why not combine the two?

And that’s how we got augmented assignment operators! These bad boys let you do math AND assign a value at the same time all in one fell swoop. It’s like having your cake and eating it too, but with less sugar and more code.

So, without further ado, let’s take a look at some of Python’s arithmetic operators: + (addition), (subtraction), *, / (division), // (integer division), % (modulo), ** (exponentiation). These are the ones you probably already know and love.

But what about comparison, Boolean, identity, membership operators? Well, they’re just as important! Here’s a rundown: == (equality),= (inequality), > (greater than), < (less than), >= (greater or equal to), <= (less or equal to). These guys help you compare values and make decisions based on the results. Then there are Boolean operators like AND, OR, NOT that let you combine conditions for even more decision-making power. And finally, we have identity and membership operators: is and in/not in. They're used to check if two objects or variables are identical (is) or if a value exists within a sequence (in). Now, what about those bitwise operators? You know the ones & (bitwise AND), | (bitwise OR), ^ (bitwise XOR), ~ (bitwise NOT), (left shift), (right shift). These guys are used for low-level manipulation of binary data. But let's be real, you probably won't use them much in everyday programming. Finally, we have the concatenation and repetition operators: + (concatenate strings) and * (repeat a sequence). They're pretty self-explanatory just add or repeat stuff! And last but not least, there are augmented assignment operators like +=, -=, *=, /=, //=, **=, |=, &=, =, =, %= and ^=. These guys let you combine the impact of arithmetic operations with assignment in one fell swoop! Now go out there and write some code that will make Bob proud (or at least impress your cat). It makes everything more fun!