Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'assuming': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'pep': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'skip:t 60': 0.09; '>on': 0.16; 'equations': 0.16; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'skip:" 80': 0.16; 'skip:t 130': 0.16; 'subject:question.': 0.16; 'subject:those': 0.16; 'subject: ?': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'url:home': 0.24; 'math': 0.24; 'asking': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'dec': 0.30; 'lines': 0.31; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'horizontal': 0.31; 'idea,': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'fri,': 0.33; "i'd": 0.34; 'something': 0.35; 'point.': 0.35; 'keyword': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'received:76': 0.38; 'sometimes': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'called': 0.40; 'name': 0.63; 'forward': 0.65; 'subject:. ': 0.67; "'equals'": 0.84; 'rusi': 0.91; 'subject:Are': 0.93; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Newbie question. Are those different objects ? Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 11:54:02 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: <52b59081$0$6599$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-249-24-7.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1387644850 news.xs4all.nl 2908 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:53891 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:62501 On 21 Dec 2013 12:58:41 GMT, Steven D'Aprano declaimed the following: >On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:00:22 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote: > >> On 20/12/2013 15:34, rusi wrote: > >>> You are also assuming that the two horizontal lines sometimes called >>> 'equals' have something to do with something called by the same name in >>> math -- equations >>> >>> >> A good point. Shall I write a PEP asking for a language change which >> requires that that stupid = sign is replaced by a keyword reading >> something like >> thenameonthelefthandsideisassignedtheobjectontherighthandside ? > >That's an excellent idea, and I look forward to reading the PEP. -1 vote... It still has the problematic "assigned" term... I'd suggest: thefullyqualifiednameontheleftafteranysubexpressionshavebeenevaluatedisattachedtotheobjectresultingfromevaluationoftheexpressionontheright (heh, the spell-checker suggests that "thefullyqualifiednameontheleftafteranysubexpressionshavebeenevaluatedisattachedt" should be replaced with "textually") -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/