What does ":=" mean in Pseudocode?

Question

Really basic syntax question in pseudocode. What does `:=` mean in Pseudocode? Example ``` a := 1 ```

Accepted Answer

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`:

```
>>> a := 1
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    a := 1
      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
```

Use

```
a = 1
```

instead.

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