variable assignment within a loop

[Michael T. Babcock]

paul at svensson.org wrote:

>take a deep breath, then repeat ten times:
>
>"I will test my examples before posting"
>
>	/Paul
>  
>
$ python2
Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 15 2003, 12:45:41)
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

 >>> a = ""
 >>> for x in "abc":
...     a = x
...     print a
...
a
b
c
 >>> print a
c

-- 
Michael T. Babcock
C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd.
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock