Multiple assignment behaves unexpectedly (was: Help ! newbie problem)

[ferdydurke]

Rene Pijlman wrote:

> ferdydurke:
>>...     a,b,c = b,a+b,c+1
> 
> b is set to a + b.
> 
> [...]
>>...     a=b
>>...     b=a+b
>            ^
>       This a has a different value now, because of the previous statement.
> So this sets b to b + b.
> 


thanks a lot for the reply, I gotcha now