On Sat, 10 May 2014 17:10:29 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > 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.
Python assignment doesn't copy values. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
