On 25 May 2013 18:34, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26/05/2013, Jim Mooney <cybervigila...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I thought tuples were immutable but it seems you can swap them, so I'm > > confused: > > > > a,b = 5,8 > > I think your confusion might arise from not understanding that the > meaning of the comma differs depending on whether it is on the left or > the right side of an equals sign. >
I think the problem is the book I'm reading, which never mentions "unpacking," so I thought from hearing a comma creates a tuple, that it was tuples on both sides ;') I'm reading Learning Computer Science With Python and I think it's scanting the Python-detail to get on with the CompSci. I'll go look for something more PyDetailed ;') -- Jim Mooney "Coding? A woman can do that! he sneered" --heard from a physics professor in 1969
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