Suggestions
Mark McEahern
marklists at mceahern.com
Sat Jan 12 15:43:26 EST 2002
Raymond Hettinger:
> Suggestion #1: Issue a dubious syntax warning for multiple
> assignments where there are overlaps between the assigned-to
> variables:
>
> >>> a = ['cat','dog']
> >>> i = 1
> >>> i, a[i] = 0, 'boo'
> >>> a
> ['boo', 'dog'] # not ['cat','boo'] which was expected
Suggestion #0: Avoid using multiple assignments unless you know what you're
doing.
;-)
// mark
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