Favorite non-python language trick?

[Robert Kern]

Terry Hancock wrote:
> On Sunday 26 June 2005 06:11 am, Robert Kern wrote:
> 
>>Terry Hancock wrote:
>>
>>>On Sunday 26 June 2005 05:39 am, Torsten Bronger wrote:
>>>
>>>>However, then you must forbid a=b=1 for assigning to two variables
>>>>at the same time.
>>
>>You need to differentiate
>>   a = b = 1
>>from
>>   a = b == 1
> 
> Okay, I see what you mean.  I can't ever recall having needed the
> second form, though.

I use it all the time with Numeric's rich comparisons.

   mask = some_arr == 999

> Of course, you could still do assignment like this:
> 
> a, b = (1,)*2
> 
> But I guess that's not exactly elegant. ;-)

Ya think?  :-)

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