Ajay Patel <ajay.patel...@gmail.com> writes: > L = [1,2,3]
That's not an expression; it is an assignment statement. The right-hand side is an expression. It will (at the top level) create a list. To create a new instance of the 'list' type, Python will call the type's '__new__' method. This is termed the constructor for that type. The constructor returns a new instance of the type; in this case, it returns a new instance of 'list'. That object is the result of evaluating the right-hand side of the expression. The statement then assigns the reference 'L' to that object. > And > L =[] All the above description also applies to that assignment statement. -- \ “If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and | `\ you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag | _o__) would be to pretend you were swimming.” —Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
