[Python-Dev] SyntaxError: can't assign to function call (original) (raw)

Michael Urman murman at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 15:52:48 CEST 2006


On 8/9/06, Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote:

The question doesn't make sense: in Python, you assign to a name, an attribute or a subscript, and that's it.

Just to play devil's advocate here, why not to a function call via a new setcall? I'm not saying there's the use case to justify it, but I don't see anything that makes it a clear abomination or impossible with python's syntax.

Michael

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