On 1/30/07, Steve Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > x, y = y, x > > Doesn't this use temporary variables?
Python doesn't really *have* variables, as such, so no. What it does is to create a tuple referring to the objects (or just possibly one object) referred to by the names 'y' and 'x', then re-binds the objects from the tuple to the names 'x' and 'y' respectively. Reset your brain! <http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm> -- Cheers, Simon B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
