>>>>> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AP) wrote: >AP> Could you maybe clarify what problem we are discussing? All I wrote >AP> was that with an assignment the search for the lefthand variable >AP> depends on whether the lefthand side is a simple variable or >AP> more complicated.
What do you mean with `the lefthand variable'? Especially when talking about `complicated lefthand sides'? >AP> Sure people may prefer to speak about (re)binding >AP> vs mutating variables, but just because I didn't use the prefered terms, >AP> starting to doubt my understanding of the language, seems a bit >AP> premature IMO. I'm sure there are areas where my understanding of >AP> the language is shaky, metaclasses being one of them, but understanding >AP> how names are searched doesn't seem to be one of them. You didn't understand it in your OP. Maybe your understanding has gained in the meantime? -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list