In article <h32eoh$ql...@reader1.panix.com>, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > >OK, so, scratching from my original post the case > ><identifier>.<identifier> = <expression> > >(as being a special case of <identifier> = <expression>), still, >to the extent that I understand your post, the "=" in > > x = 1 > >means something fundamentally different (in terms of Python's >underlying implementation) from the "=" in > > y[0] = 1 > >No?
No. ;-) What's different is not the ``=`` but the construction of the assignment target before ``=`` gets executed. Consider also this: x, y = y, x -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "as long as we like the same operating system, things are cool." --piranha -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
