= is not an operator. It's part of the assignment statement[1] syntax. Here's the full list of Python operators[2] as of 3.8: + - * **

= is not an operator. It's part of the assignment statement[1] syntax. Here's the full list of Python operators[2] as of 3.8: + - * ** / // % @ << >> & | ^ ~ := < > <= >= == != The post is probably just trolling, but still. [1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#grammar-token-assignment-stmt https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#gramma... [2] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#operators https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#op...