On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:22:00 -0500, Terry Hancock wrote: >> You need to differentiate >> a = b = 1 >> from >> a = b == 1 > > Okay, I see what you mean. I can't ever recall having needed the > second form, though. > > Of course, you could still do assignment like this: > > a, b = (1,)*2 > > But I guess that's not exactly elegant. ;-)
In general that is not the same thing as a = b = obj. py> a, b = ([], []) py> a.append(1) py> b [] py> a = b = [] py> a.append(1) py> b [1] -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
