Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Python told me a Joke
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 10:05:30 +0200
Message-ID: <vb3rka$21vqv$1@solani.org>
References: <868qwafq1o.fsf@williamsburg.bawden.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 08:05:30 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: solani.org;
	logging-data="2162527"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org"
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101
 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2
Cancel-Lock: sha1:vRf1Zb11Ln9UTT5dmdGsOIMPuBc=
In-Reply-To: <868qwafq1o.fsf@williamsburg.bawden.org>
X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXZgsFz0GU/09Y4tRSh8llPj7aB+Rs5q0MoOBXyAq9s+6qalbg1T14nA6aMrx604Kf4QdOfxUu
Bytes: 2174
Lines: 43

You can try:

 >>> 1,2 == 2,2
(1, True, 2)

Its the same as:

 >>> 1, (2 == 2), 2
(1, True, 2)

Hope this helps!

Alan Bawden schrieb:
>      Python 3.10.5 (v3.10.5:f37715, Jul 10 2022, 00:26:17) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux
>      Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>      >>> x,_,z = [1,2,3]
> 
> Works as expected.
> 
> Now I didn't expect the following to work (but Python sometimes
> surprises me!), so I tried:
>   
>      >>> x,2,z = [1,2,3]
>        File "<stdin>", line 1
>          x,2,z = [1,2,3]
>              ^^^^^^^^^^^
>      SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Maybe you meant '==' or ':=' instead of '='?
> 
> Yeah, that makes sense, no surprises today...  Except "maybe you meant
> '=='..." caught my attention.  _Could_ that be what someone would want
> in this situation I wondered?  So I tried:
> 
>      >>> x,2,z == [1,2,3]
>      (1, 2, False)
> 
> Now that made me laugh.
> 
> - Alan
> 
> [ Some people reading this will be tempted to explain what's really
>    going on here -- it's not hard to understand.  But please remember that
>    a joke is never funny if you have to explain it. ]
>