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  Re: Interpreting Left to right? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-24 17:46 +1000

#8358 — Re: Interpreting Left to right?

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> --> x = x['huh'] = {}
> --> x
> {'huh': {...}}
>

I would have to call that dodgy practice... unless you have a lot of
places where you need a dictionary with itself as an element, I would
avoid assignments that depend on each other.

Perhaps it's just because I'm a C programmer, but that code smells a
lot like the classic "i = i++;" blunder - nearly as bad as land wars
in Asia.

ChrisA

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