Making statements (was Re: does python have useless destructors?)

[Slawomir Nowaczyk]

On 15 Jun 2004 11:38:48 -0400
aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:

#> In article <e251b7ba.0406150326.20ab48cc at posting.google.com>,
#> David Turner <dkturner at telkomsa.net> wrote:

#>> Hmm... I wonder if it would be possible to override the "="
#>> operator...?

#> This comment indicates that you don't understand how Python works.  In
#> Python, ``=`` is a *statement*, not an operator.

Well, technically, "a=1" is a statement (Reference manual, 6.3
Assignment statements). The symbol "=" itself is a 'grammar
delimiter' (Reference manual, 2.6 Delimiters), which is neither
operator nor statement.

Nevertheless, there is no way to override "=".

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   Slawomir Nowaczyk
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