packing unpacking depends on order.

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/09/2015 11:01, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>>> b = 1
>>>> b, a[b] = a[b], b
>>>> a
> [1, 2, 1, 4, 5]
>>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>>> b = 1
>>>> a[b], b = b, a[b]
>>>> a
> [1, 1, 3, 4, 5]
>
> I think I understand how it gets these results
> but I'm not really happy with them. I think python
> should give the second result in both cases.
>

You might find this interesting 
https://www.cyphar.com/blog/post/tuple-unpacking-oddness

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