That's interesting. I agree with you, I'd prefer the second result in both cases.
But makes sense as it evaluates left to right and seems to break up the unpacking into separate statements. Could be useful if you want to hold the results of a generator in sequence, can call the same function multiple times and unpack as above. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:07 AM Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > > >>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] > >>> b = 1 > >>> b, a[b] = a[b], b > >>> a > [1, 2, 1, 4, 5] > >>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] > >>> b = 1 > >>> a[b], b = b, a[b] > >>> a > [1, 1, 3, 4, 5] > > I think I understand how it gets these results > but I'm not really happy with them. I think python > should give the second result in both cases. > > -- > Antoon Pardon > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- - Nick
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