I agree as well. First evaluate the right side, then assign it to the
left side at once.
On 02.09.2015 12:22, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
That's interesting. I agree with you, I'd prefer the second result in
both cases.
But makes sense as it evaluates left to right and seems to break up
the unpacking into separate statements.
Could be useful if you want to hold the results of a generator in
sequence, can call the same function multiple times and unpack as above.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:07 AM Antoon Pardon
<antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be <mailto:antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be>>
wrote:
>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> b = 1
>>> b, a[b] = a[b], b
>>> a
[1, 2, 1, 4, 5]
>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> b = 1
>>> a[b], b = b, a[b]
>>> a
[1, 1, 3, 4, 5]
I think I understand how it gets these results
but I'm not really happy with them. I think python
should give the second result in both cases.
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