Duncan Booth wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> As a matter of interest do PyLint or PyChecker check for this situation >>> (chained assignment where the target of an assignment is also a >>> subexpression of a later assignment)? >>> >> Where's the published syntax for chained assignment? > > http://docs.python.org/ref/assignment.html > > More specifically, since you seem to have missed it, it's the '+' in the > line: > > assignment_stmt ::= (target_list "=")+ expression_list > > And then the clear statement "assigns the single resulting object to each > of the target lists, from left to right".
Got it, thanks. See my further remarks in my reply to your last. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Recent Ramblings http://holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
