On Jan 30, 3:31 am, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:50:04 -0800, tony.clarke5 wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 12:29 am, Eric Kang wrote:
> >> In python, I set:
>
> >> x=1
> >> y=3
>
> >> z = x
> >> x = y
> >> y = z
>
> >> This gave me 3 1, which are the values of x and y swapped. The
> >> f
On Jan 30, 12:29 am, Eric Kang wrote:
> In python, I set:
>
> x=1
> y=3
>
> z = x
> x = y
> y = z
>
> This gave me 3 1, which are the values of x and y swapped.
> The following would have given me the same result:
> x, y = y, x
>
> But could the swapping be done using less extra memory than this?