Paul Rubin wrote: > The symbols on the left side of = signs are called variables even in > Haskell, where they don't "vary" (you can't change the value of a > variable once you have set it).
at the language specification level, the things to the left side of = signs are called "targets" in Python. if they are plain identifiers, they're called "names". </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
