
May 1, 2018
12:27 a.m.
On 04/30/2018 07:30 AM, Mark Shannon wrote:
Would Python be better with two subtly different assignment operators? The answer of "no" seems self evident to me.
Maybe this has been covered in the thread earlier--if so, I missed it, sorry. But ISTM that Python already has multiple ways to perform an assignment. All these statements assign to x: x = y for x in y: with y as x: except Exception as x: And, if you want to get *super* pedantic: import x def x(): ... class x: ... I remain -1 on 572, but I'm not sure it can genuinely be said that Python only has one way to assign a value to a variable. //arry/