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I have a variable in a driver that I would like to be able to "switch on and off". To do this, I figured I could give this variable a power, another variable that would link to a custom property. I can then make the custom property 1, for enabled, or 0 for disabled - as a number to the power 0 is 1 and 1 multiplied by another number is just that other number.

I.e. x^y*z .

However Blender doesn't seem to support this. Here is the error from the console: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for ^: 'float' and 'float'

Any ideas as to why this is? It seems like pretty standard math to me. If not, any ideas how to get around it?

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    $\begingroup$ simple python syntax error, use ** for power of. $\endgroup$
    – David
    Commented Jun 16, 2016 at 5:14
  • $\begingroup$ not strictly a Blender issue either... this would be equally well at home on stackoverflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/34258537/… $\endgroup$
    – zeffii
    Commented Jun 16, 2016 at 7:45
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    $\begingroup$ I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it pertains to the meaning and effect of default operator symbols in Python. $\endgroup$
    – zeffii
    Commented Jun 16, 2016 at 7:48
  • $\begingroup$ Or just use x * z if y else x as your driver expression. $\endgroup$
    – batFINGER
    Commented Jun 16, 2016 at 8:53

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As I said in the comments

Raising a value to a power is pretty standard math, something python can defiantly do.

Your trouble comes from a simple python syntax error. You are using ^ when the syntax in python is ** for power of (^ is the bitwise XOR operator ). As you can see here in the python docs ** is the the correct form.

You could alternatively use pow() function.

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