The � debate

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 10 May 2014 17:10:29 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Gregory Ewing
> <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>> some_function(x, y+1)[key].attribute[num](arg)[spam or eggs] = 42
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure that it isn't common to call the LHS of that
>>> assignment a variable.
>>
>>
>> A better way of putting it might be "something in the data model that
>> can be assigned to".
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science)
> 
> Go ahead, start an edit war at that page over its use of "variable". :)
> Right there it talks about copying values into variables. So if Python
> has no variables, then either that article is inappropriate, or Python
> has no assignment either.

Python assignment doesn't copy values.




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