On 8/10/06, James Y Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It makes just as much sense as assigning to an array access, and the > semantics would be pretty similar.
No. Array references (x[i]) and attribute references (x.a) represent "locations". Function calls represent values. This is no different than the distinction between lvalues and rvalues in C. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
