On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:22:45 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> You think that the '=' sign not standing for math equality is ok. >> >> How come? > > For the same reason that in the following: > > [c.upper() for c in some_string if 'a' < c < 'x'] > > having the c symbol not stand for the speed of light is okay. Likewise, > in the sentence "I went to the park today", the symbol I doesn't mean the > element iodine. Symbols are context-dependent: the x in one equation is > not necessarily the same x in another equation, and the symbol = in one > context does not necessarily have the same meaning as in another context.
Thanks, you said it better than I would have. That's exactly the sentiment I would have expressed, and while I hate to "Me too" a post, I'll do it here. +1. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
