Scope troubles with a swap function

[Duncan Booth]

"Matthew D. Wood" <woodm at equire.com> wrote in 
news:mailman.997452856.7709.python-list at python.org:

> How do you make a swap function? 
> 
The easy way:

a, b = b, a

and of course you aren't restricted to two values:

a, b, c = b, c, a

If you are *really* sure you want a function that swaps its arguments, try:

def swap(a, b): return b, a
a, b = swap(a, b)

Python isn't C. Its better.

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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