Multiple assignment and the expression on the right side

[Robert Kern]

Suresh Jeevanandam wrote:
> Dear all,
> 	I read in "Python in a Nutshell" that when we have multiple assignments 
> made on a single line, it is equivalent to have those many simple 
> assignments and that the right side is evaluated once for each 
> assignment. [The wordings are mine. I am not sure if this is what he 
> intended].

No, it isn't. He says, "Each time the statement executes, the right-hand side
expression is evaluated once." "[T]he statement" refers to the multiple
assignment as a whole.

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