On Tue, May 15, 2018, 6:36 PM bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 16/05/2018 01:04, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > I'm not a C coder, but I think that specific example would be immune to > > the bug we are discussing, since (I think) you can't chain assignments in > > C. Am I right? > > Assignments can be chained in C (with right-to-left precedence) as can > augmented assignments (+= and so on). >
Yes, but not in the particular example that Steven was referring to, which you elided from your quoting. open(...) is not a valid LHS for assignment. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
