Suresh Jeevanandam wrote: > Dear all, > I read in "Python in a Nutshell" that when we have multiple assignments > made on a single line, it is equivalent to have those many simple > assignments and that the right side is evaluated once for each > assignment. [The wordings are mine. I am not sure if this is what he > intended].
No, it isn't. He says, "Each time the statement executes, the right-hand side expression is evaluated once." "[T]he statement" refers to the multiple assignment as a whole. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
