[]=[]

[Piergiorgio Sartor]

On 23/09/2023 09.41, Stefan Ram wrote:
> ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>> []=[]
> 
>    I was watching a video of a David Beazley talk "Python
>    Concurrency From the Ground Up" , where he wrote
> 
> can_recv, can_send, [] = select(recv_wait, send_wait, [])
> 
>    . Later, he clarified that he actually wanted to write
> 
> can_recv, can_send, _ = select(recv_wait, send_wait, [])
> 
>    and that he was surprised how the "[]" gave no error.
>    ("I wonder why that works.")

If you try:

[] = [1]

and check the error, it will be clear how it works.
Maybe not why... :-)

bye,

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piergiorgio