Is assigning the same thing assigning? #bpo-19953 by feliam · Pull Request #11763 · python/cpython (original) (raw)

Hi @feliam, thanks for trying to contribute in Python!

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I don't think this proposal has much chances to be accepted, there is no use in having this and it would only encourage bad habits. You cannot assign to tuples, why would you encourage doing it? It's useless in the end.

There's many other places where assignment of the same object would still break like frozen data-classes for example.

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