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>>> x,_,z = [1,2,3]
Works as expected.
Now I didn't expect the following to work (but Python sometimes
surprises me!), so I tried:
>>> x,2,z = [1,2,3]
File "<stdin>", line 1
x,2,z = [1,2,3]
^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Maybe you meant '==' or ':=' instead of '='?
Yeah, that makes sense, no surprises today... Except "maybe you meant
'=='..." caught my attention. _Could_ that be what someone would want
in this situation I wondered? So I tried:
>>> x,2,z == [1,2,3]
(1, 2, False)
Now that made me laugh.
- Alan
[ Some people reading this will be tempted to explain what's really
going on here -- it's not hard to understand. But please remember that
a joke is never funny if you have to explain it. ]
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