On 2013.03.17 19:58, Yves S. Garret wrote: > N00b question. But here is the code: > > http://bin.cakephp.org/view/709201806 > > In the first example, the first for-loop is run and then the list is assigned > to the tricky variable. But, what > happens in the second example? Does the loop after "in" get run only once or > multiple number of times? > In the first example, sorted() returns a list, which is assigned to the name tricky (Python doesn't have variables - names simply point to objects in memory), and then the for loop iterates over tricky, which points to a list. In the second example, the for loop iterates over the list that sorted() returns. The only difference between the two is that the list that sorted() returns is assigned to a name in the first example.
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