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What is this /= for portfolio weighting?

Been seeing this. Tried to google it with no luck.

context.shorts /= context.shorts.sum()
context.longs /= context.longs.sum()

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Hi Eric,

x /= y

is equivalent to:

x = x/y

It's also analogous to:

x += y

Does this help?

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Yes it does thank you.

so he is taking

context.longs= context.longs/(total number of longs)

How is the weighting different from this code?

def weight(context):

The Place for hopefully an improved weighting structure

if len(context.longs)==0:  
    return  
else:  
    long_weight=0.98/len(context.longs)  
    return long_weight  

Hmm. Makes sense but what would the code look for context.longs to be a ratio of context.longs/(total number of longs)?

Why does it want a % ratio if the following line of code is:

context.security_list = context.longs.index.union(context.shorts.index).tolist() (which I assume is a total list of longs and shorts in the basket).

Am I missing something?