question about dictionary type..

[Terry Reedy]

> Interesting is the line "start[key] = start = {}", because first
> "start[key] = {}" is evaluated, then "start = {}" (with "{}" being
the
> same object as in the first assignment). You can check this with
"dis", as
> I've read in another posting in this newsgroup:

Since this is documented in Ref Manual 6.3

"An assignment statement evaluates the expression list (remember that
this can be a single expression or a comma-separated list, the latter
yielding a tuple) and assigns the single resulting object to each of
the target lists, from left to right."

you can count on this behaviour persisting in future versions.

TJR