Interpreting Left to right?

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> --> x = x['huh'] = {}
> --> x
> {'huh': {...}}
>

I would have to call that dodgy practice... unless you have a lot of
places where you need a dictionary with itself as an element, I would
avoid assignments that depend on each other.

Perhaps it's just because I'm a C programmer, but that code smells a
lot like the classic "i = i++;" blunder - nearly as bad as land wars
in Asia.

ChrisA