John Posner <john_posner_a...@post.harvard.edu> added the comment: The "Assignment statements" section *does* talk about the RHS -- but in a subtle way:
For targets which are attribute references, the initial value is retrieved with a getattr() The retrieving of the initial value (maybe "current value" would be better) occurs on the RHS of the assignment statement. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5621> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
