Mark Wooding wrote: ... > Python doesn't need another name for assignment,
OK. > because actually its > idea of assignment is the same as anyone else's. The difference is in > the way it deals with objects. See argument elsewhere. "the same as anyone else's" only if [Python's] "idea of assignment" does not include producing the same results. a = array (1,2,3) b = a a[1] = 4 print b C, C++, VBA, Fortran, Perl: 1, 2, 3 Python: 1, 4, 3 Telling someone coming to Python from one of those languages that Python's assignment works the same way as those languages is confusing at best. "dealing objects" is part of assignment semantics ISTM. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
