"Jean-Paul Calderone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:03:34 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Looks like a gotcha to me - its the difference between a keyword > >(master = 42) and an assignment (s='I am a string') > > > > But it's not a keyword: > > >>> len(s=[]) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > TypeError: len() takes no keyword arguments > >>> > > I think that's the issue here. yes - the point I am trying to make is that the intention of the OP was to use an assignment as an argument, and you can't do that, as the interpreter thinks its a keyword. Hence the gotcha. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
