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[Python-Dev] SyntaxError: can't assign to function call

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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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Michael Urman  http://www.tortall.net/mu/blog

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