In python, assignment is a statement, not an expression (it has no
return value).
This is unlike many other programming languages, such as C:
if ( (r = result()) == 3) {
// do something with r
}
In python:
>>> (a = 10) + 2
File "<stdin>", line 1
(a = 10) + 2
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
- Alex
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