Re: Swapping values of two variables

2009-01-29 Thread tony . clarke5
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

Re: Swapping values of two variables

2009-01-29 Thread tony . clarke5
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?