Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:30:47 +0000, Albert van der Horst wrote: >> The worst of is, of course, = for assignment instead of := . This is >> a convention that Python follows, to my dismay. > > *shrug* > > The worst is to use = for both equality and assignment, like some > BASICs. At least Python does not allow assignment as an expression, so > you can't make the typical C error of: > > if x = y: do_something() # oops meant x == y > Technically of course Python doesn't have assignment, it just binds names.
Albert raised the subject of Algol 68 which if I remember correctly used := for assignment and = to bind names (although unlike Python you couldn't then re-bind the name to another object in the same scope). -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
