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[Left Right]

Actually, after some Web search.  I think, based on this:
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#grammar-token-python-grammar-augtarget
that in Python you call this "augmented assignment target". The term
isn't in the glossary, but so are many others.

On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 1:45 AM Left Right <olegsivokon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > surprising for me:
>
> Surprise is subjective, it's based on personal experience. Very few
> languages allow arbitrary complex expressions in the same place they
> allow variable introduction. The fact that "i" is not defined is
> irrelevant to this example.  Most programmers who haven't memorized
> Python grammar by heart, but expect the language to behave similar to
> the languages in the same category would be surprised this code is
> valid (i.e. can be parsed), whether it results in error or not is of
> no consequence.
>
> > There's no destructuring going on here
>
> I use the term "destructuring" in the same way Hyperspec uses it.
> It's not a Python term.  I don't know what you call the same thing in
> Python.  I'm not sure what you understand from it.
>
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 12:37 AM Greg Ewing via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 13/01/24 12:11 am, Left Right wrote:
> > >      x = [...]
> > >      for x[i] in x: print(i)
> >
> > I suspect you've misremembered something, because this doesn't
> > do anything surprising for me:
> >
> >  >>> x = [1, 2, 3]
> >  >>> for x[i] in x: print(i)
> > ...
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > NameError: name 'i' is not defined
> >
> > There's no destructuring going on here, just assignment to a
> > sequence item.
> >
> > --
> > Greg
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