Leandro Lucarella: > A more general solution is supporting tuples in the language, then you can > do something like: > a, b = b, a;
I have implemented that time ago for ShedSkin, here George Sakkis (first answer) suggests how to minimize the number of auxiliary variables: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/a218f066bef2fc9e/931a4331b18bc5f5 Bye, bearophile