On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 05:27:08PM -0700, Larry Hastings wrote: > > On 04/30/2018 07:30 AM, Mark Shannon wrote: > >Would Python be better with two subtly different assignment operators? > >The answer of "no" seems self evident to me. > > Maybe this has been covered in the thread earlier--if so, I missed it, > sorry. But ISTM that Python already has multiple ways to perform an > assignment. > > All these statements assign to x: [snip SEVEN distinct binding operations]
> I remain -1 on 572, but I'm not sure it can genuinely be said that > Python only has one way to assign a value to a variable. "Not sure"? Given that you listed seven ways, how much more evidence do you need to conclude that it is simply wrong to say that Python has a single way to assign a value to a name? :-) -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
