On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:18:53 +0000, kj wrote: > I had not realized how *profoundly* different the meaning of the "=" in > Python's > > spam = ham > > is from the "=" in its > > spam[3] = ham[3] > > So much for "explicit is better than implicit"...
I'm sorry, I don't get it. Can you explain please? I don't see why it's so "profoundly" different. Apart from spam[3] = x not being permitted if spam is an immutable type. I suppose though they are *fundamentally* different, in that spam=ham is dealt with by the compiler while spam[3]=ham is handled by the object spam using the __setitem__ method. Is that the difference you're talking about? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
