On Feb 21, 1:48 pm, John Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 21, 1:43 pm, mrstephengross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all. In C, an assignment statement returns the value assigned. For > > instance: > > > int x > > int y = (x = 3) > > > In the above example, (x=3) returns 3, which is assigned to y. > > > In python, as far as I can tell, assignment statements don't return > > anything: > > > y = (x = 3) > > > The above example generates a SyntaxError. > > > Is this correct? I just want to make sure I've understood the > > semantics. > > > Thanks, > > --Steve > > That's true, and I am happy that they decided to make that a syntax > error.
BTW: The less obvious issues when coming from the C world are Python syntax like these: y = x = 3 a = 4 y = x = a print x,y a = 5 print x,y -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
