On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> some_function(x, y+1)[key].attribute[num](arg)[spam or eggs] = 42 >> >> I'm pretty sure that it isn't common to call the LHS of that assignment a >> variable. > > > A better way of putting it might be "something in the data > model that can be assigned to".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science) Go ahead, start an edit war at that page over its use of "variable". :) Right there it talks about copying values into variables. So if Python has no variables, then either that article is inappropriate, or Python has no assignment either. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
