r a écrit : -snip) > Just thinking out loud here...what if variable assignments could > return a value... hmmm? Not to them selfs of course but to a caller, > like an if statement... > > if a=openfile: > # do something with a
Congratulations, you just reinvented one of the most infamous source of bugs in C, C++, Java, PHP, javascript and quite a few other languages. Believe it or not, but not allowing this in Python was a very deliberate design choice. Now whether it was a good choice is another troll^Mtopic !-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
