code doesn't work: question

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Ruslan Spivak fed this fish to the penguins on Tuesday 03 September 
2002 03:03 am:


> if (tmp = var) == 5:         # this is the error line

        Unless things have changed since I last read a Python book, assignment 
is not an operator, it is a statement.

 tmp = var
 if tmp == 5:


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