Symbols

Symbol	Name	Detail information
:	colon	in if/else branches,in index of string,in while loops
{}	curly brackets	creating hashes
=	equal sign	assignment operator
==	equal sign,double	equal to operator
!=	exclamation point,equal sign	not equal to operator
()	parentheses	in format strings,in function definition
%	percentage symbol	preceding format strings
.	period	in library function request
+	plus sign	addition operator
#	pound sign	preceding comments
>	right angle bracket	greater than operator
[]	square brackets	creating arrays,enclosing index of array, enclosing index of strings, enclosing key for dict