On 2022-11-14, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > On 14/11/22 1:31 pm, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> On 2022-11-13, DFS <nos...@dfs.com> wrote: >>> But why is it allowed in the first place? >> >> Because it's an expression, and you're allowed to execute expressions. > > To put it a bit more clearly, you're allowed to evaluate > an expression and ignore the result.
... because it may have side effects, and it's not possible to determine whether it will or not in advance. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
