Terry Hancock wrote: > On Sunday 26 June 2005 05:39 am, Torsten Bronger wrote: > >>Hallöchen! >>However, then you must forbid a=b=1 for assigning to two variables >>at the same time. > > Why? It's already handled as an exception in the syntax. > > In C, what you say makes sense, because "b=1" is an expression as > well as an assignment. But I don't think Python reads it that way -- it > just has code to recognize multiple assignment as a statement. I think > I remember reading that in the Language Reference or something.
You need to differentiate a = b = 1 from a = b == 1 -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." -- Richard Harter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
