"Tim Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think you are being a little bit unfair here: help(len) says: > > > > len(...) > > len(object) -> integer > > > > Return the number of items of a sequence or mapping. > > > > which implies that the argument to len has the name 'object' (although in > > fact it doesn't have a name). > > And to confound matters even further for the uninitiated, > > http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-45 > > says that it's "len(s)" instead (but "len(s=[])" doesn't work either)
Looks like a gotcha to me - its the difference between a keyword (master = 42) and an assignment (s='I am a string') You just can't do that - how is the parser supposed to know that the second one is an assignment and not a keyword? len([]) should work, though. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
