Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > 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. […] in this case, [the object] a new > instance of 'list' […] is the result of evaluating the right-hand side > of the expression.
I goofed there. That should end with "[…] evaluating the expression on the right-hand side". > The statement then assigns the reference 'L' to that object. -- \ “We have clumsy, sputtering, inefficient brains…. It is a | `\ *struggle* to be rational and objective, and failures are not | _o__) evidence for an alternative reality.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2010-10-14 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list