On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 2:00:08 PM UTC+8, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 04Nov2014 19:17, Max Nathaniel Ho <maxhow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Just to be clear, I was referring to these two lines > > > >greet = compose_greet_func() > > > >greet_someone = greet > > Please don't top-post. Thanks. > > Your first assignment: > > greet = compose_greet_func() > > _calls_ (runs) the compose_greet_func and assigns its return value to greet. > > Your second assignment: > > greet_someone = greet > > assigns the current value of "greet", whatever that is, to "greet_someone". > No > function is called. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
Apologies about the top posting. Ahh okay, thank you for your explanation -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list