On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > What happens if you do this? > > spam = eggs = cheese = obj > > Is that different from: > > spam = obj > eggs = obj > cheese = obj > > > or from this? > > spam = obj > eggs = spam > cheese = eggs > ... > These aren't silly questions.
Indeed, they are not silly. It surprised me (as a C programmer) that the assignments happen left-to-right, rather than right-to-left (in C, cheese would be set first, then eggs, then spam). These are questions filled with subtleties. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
