"jim stockford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > your example is interesting, but reading right to left > doesn't work well, which bothers me.
It works OK if you treat the entire right hand side as an expression that evaluates to a value which is bound to the name on the left. In the list cae the sort method works in-place so the list object never changes. In the integer case two integers get added together to make a new integer. The new value is bound to the name. > I hate not being able to read from right to left in a > procrustean manner. The compromise is read the > right side of the "assignment" operator and then > the left side and do what common sense expects. You can read from right to left but you just have to do it under the rules of Python :-) Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
