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From: George Trojan <george.trojan@noaa.gov>
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Subject: tuples in conditional assignment
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 03:25:48 +0000
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The following code has bitten me recently:

 >>> t=(0,1)
 >>> x,y=t if t else 8, 9
 >>> print(x, y)
(0, 1) 9

I was assuming that a comma has the highest order of evaluation, that is 
the expression 8, 9 should make a tuple. Why this is not the case?

George