On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Mark H. Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is what I mean... the error message is telling the user that it cannot > do what he has requested, and yet IT DID. You have one of two scenarios: > 1) the message is arbitrarily lying and it really can assign an immutable's > item... (and it did!) or 2) It really should NOT assign an immutables item > (the message is truth) but the action was "allowed" anyway despite the > protocol and accepted policy... in which case the two scenarios add up to a > giant logical inconsistency... QED a bug. >
It did not assign anything. The error was raised because the tuple rejects item assignment. It's that simple. The object was mutated before the assignment was attempted. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
