On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 05:27:08PM -0700, Larry Hastings wrote:
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:
[snip SEVEN distinct binding operations]
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.
"Not sure"? Given that you listed seven ways, how much more evidence do you need to conclude that it is simply wrong to say that Python has a single way to assign a value to a name? :-) -- Steve