why cannot assign to function call

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-01-05, Derek Martin <code at pizzashack.org> wrote:

>> I'm sorry, but I really don't see how Python's assignment
>> model could be considered bizarre by anybody who's familiar
>> with more than one or two languages.  
>
> And... what if one wasn't?  The OP of this thread clearly
> didn't understand... Whereas if you've read the thread,
> clearly I do. Of course, had you read my post, you probably
> would have understood that my comment about the model being
> bizarre was intended to be viewed from the perspective of
> someone who *had not* seen anything like it before,

X is bizarre because it is unfamiliar to anybody who has never
seen X before?

-- 
Grant