Beginner Question

[Erik Max Francis]

Kevin Reeder wrote:

> And that may be what they're getting at as a way to make me analyze
> the
> process, but isn't the sequence assignment more or less an abbreviated
> way
> of doing the same thing? I've been thinking that there is some other
> way that is eluding me.

They're just asking you for another way of doing a swap rather than
tuple assignment.  Using a temporary variable is certainly one way (and
is the typical way of doing it in languages which don't support
something like automatic sequence packing/unpacking like Python does).

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