a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

Steven Taschuk staschuk at telusplanet.net
Mon Jun 9 12:41:03 EDT 2003


Quoth Martin v. Löwis:
  [...]
> So what is the rationale for wanting that change, again? [...]
> assignment_stmt: supported, but useless
>                  You can only assign to local variables
>                  so a lambda with a assignment_stmt inside 
>                  would have no effect
  [...]
> del_stmt:        supported, but useless
>                  you can only del local variables inside the lambda

Nit: attributes and subscripts.  Lambdas such as
    lambda x: obj.attr = x
    lambda x: del seq[x]
might be useful.

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Steven Taschuk                                                   w_w
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