On 31/01/13 18:36, heathen wrote:
why is this:
>>> d = 2
>>> d *= 3 + 4
>>> d
14
not this:
>>> d
10
Others have answered but I'll add my two cents variation...
d *= 3+4 works like
d *= X -> d = d * X
so what is X? Is it the 3 or the 3+4.
Let's put some parentheses around things to make it unambiguous:
where X=(3+4)
(d = d * (3+4)) -> 14 that all works OK
where X = 3
((d = d * 3) + 4)
which is a syntax error since assignment doesn't return
a value in Python...
So it has to be X = (3+4) to make any kind of sense.
In these cases you have to think the way the computer thinks.
How is Python going to interpret it? In the second case it can't.
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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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