[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:14:50 -0500 > Chris Gonnerman wrote: > > >>There are two philosophies about programming: >> >>-- Make it hard to do wrong. >> >>-- Make it easy to do right. >> >>What you are promoting is the first philosophy: Tie the programmer's >>hands so he can't do wrong. Python for the most part follows the >>second philosophy, > > > So it is for the very this reason there is no assignment operator in the > Python? > If you are really asking whether assignment was deliberately designed as a statement rather than an operator, the answer is "yes".
http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-can-t-i-use-an-assignment-in-an-expression Note also that the Python alternative is now rather out of date: rather than writing while True: line = f.readline() if not line: break ...do something with line... We would nowadays write for line in f: ...do something with line... which seems to feel quite natural to most Python programmers. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.pycon.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
