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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> some_function(x, y+1)[key].attribute[num](arg)[spam or eggs] = 42
> 
> I'm pretty sure that it isn't common to call the LHS of that assignment a 
> variable.

A better way of putting it might be "something in the data
model that can be assigned to".

-- 
Greg