Could you explain this rebinding (or some other action) on "nums = nums"?

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Subject	Could you explain this rebinding (or some other action) on "nums = nums"?
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Hi,

I read a blog written by Ned and find it is very interesting, but I am still
unclear it in some parts. In the following example, I am almost lost at the
last line: 

nums = num


Could anyone explain it in a more detail to me?

Thanks,





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The reason is that list implements __iadd__ like this (except in C, not Python):

class List:
    def __iadd__(self, other):
        self.extend(other)
        return self
When you execute "nums += more", you're getting the same effect as:

nums = nums.__iadd__(more)
which, because of the implementation of __iadd__, acts like this:

nums.extend(more)
nums = nums
So there is a rebinding operation here, but first, there's a mutating operation, and the rebinding operation is a no-op.

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Could you explain this rebinding (or some other action) on "nums = nums"? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-06-24 16:52 -0700
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