Please improve these comprehensions (was meaning of [ ])

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 12:19 am, Rustom Mody wrote:

> And how do you write even the simplest assignment statement without a
> (mathematical) expression on the rhs?

name = other_name

is not a mathematical expression. Its giving something a new name.

name = obj.attribute

is not a mathematical expression. (That's not a dot product.)



> What were Turing, Church, von Neumann, even Knuth by training? Mathematicians
> or CS-ists? 
> 
> And what are the contributions of Turing, Church, von Neumann, Knuth to CS?

Who cares? We're talking about Python, not Computer Science.





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