Re: Interpreting Left to right?

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Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 01:24:24PM -0700, Ned Deily wrote:
> > http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/simple_stmts.html#assignment-statements
>
> Perhaps I'm thick, but (the first thing I did was read the docs and) I
> still don't get it. From the docs:
>
> "An assignment statement evaluates the expression list (remember that
> this can be a single expression or a comma-separated list, the latter
> yielding a tuple) and assigns the single resulting object to each of
> the target lists, from left to right."

Notice that, in the grammar given there, there is exactly one
“expression list”, following *all* of the ‘=’s. The “target lists” are
each to the left of an ‘=’.

> For a single target, it evaluates the RHS and assigns the result to
> the LHS. Thus
>
> x = x['foo'] = {}
>
> first evaluates
>
> x['foo'] = {}

No, that's not an “expression list” by the grammar given in the docs.

The expression list consists, in your example, of “{}” only. The target
lists are “x”, then “x['foo']”, in that order.

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Ben Finney

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Re: Interpreting Left to right? Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> - 2011-06-24 16:08 -0500
  Re: Interpreting Left to right? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-25 10:32 +1000
  Re: Interpreting Left to right? Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-25 18:44 +0000

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