No swap function in Python?

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Bolton, Gawain [ADC:4808:EXCH] [SMTP:boltong at europem01.nt.com]
> (a,b) = (b,a)
> 
> But I'm not completely convinced doing this is safe.  In tests I've done
> it works, but I'm not sure whether this works in all cases with all
> types...  Finally, if the behaviour is guaranteed, is this an efficient
> way of doing a swap?
 
This is fine. This is called tuple packing (and unpacking). See here <> for
details.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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