[Chicago] I don't get why this works

Brantley Harris deadwisdom at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 05:24:46 CEST 2013


> a = {}
> a['a'] = a[a['a']] = 'b'
{'a': 'b', 'b': 'b'}

What the what?  I would think that should KeyError, but it runs fine.
 Someone splain.
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