Why = = (and not just =)

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> "Joe Green" <someone at microsoft.com> (JG) wrote:

JG> Sorry, I cant help aking stupid questions:
JG> I understand why we need = = in C, but why in Python (or Java),
JG> surely if you write
JG>  if a=b: pass # syntax error
JG> it could not possibly mean anything other than what I intended
JG> (which was of course if a = = b:) ?

So what about a = b = c vs. a = b==c?

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