Hi, I am confused with this piece of code. This is a code responsible
for building a tag cloud. It lives in the views.py

The part I don't understand is

    # Calculate tag, min and max counts.
    min_count = max_count = tags[0].bookmarks.count()

I never had used this 3 assignments in Python before. I also don't get
why it's tags[0]....

According to the book, it is iterating through the tag lists.....
I really can't follow the logic there, and this also prevents me from
understanding the rest of the for loop....

Thank you for any input!

//code begins

def tag_cloud_page(request):
    MAX_WEIGHT = 5
    tags = Tag.objects.order_by('name')
    # Calculate tag, min and max counts.
    min_count = max_count = tags[0].bookmarks.count()
    for tag in tags:
        tag.count = tag.bookmarks.count()
        if tag.count < min_count:
             min_count = tag.count
        if max_count < tag.count:
            max_count = tag.count
    # Calculate count range. Avoid dividing by zero.
    range = float(max_count - min_count)
    if range == 0.0:
        range = 1.0
    # Calculate tag weights.
    for tag in tags:
        tag.weight = int( MAX_WEIGHT * (tag.count - min_count) /
range)
        variables = RequestContext(request, { 'tags': tags })
    return render_to_response('tag_cloud_page.html', variables)

// code ends

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