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Author	Kyle.Buzsaki
Recipients	Cesar.Kawakami, Devin Jeanpierre, Kyle.Buzsaki, r.david.murray, rhettinger
Date	2015-01-20.09:25:19
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1421745919.75.0.774207113291.issue23275@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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It seems that assigning to [] is the odd one out in this case. Why is this even possible? >>> [] = () >>> [] = {} >>> [] = set() >>> list() = () File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can't assign to function call >>> () = [] File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can't assign to () >>> {} = [] File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can't assign to literal >>> set() = [] File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can't assign to function call >>>

It seems that assigning to [] is the odd one out in this case. Why is this even possible?

>>> [] = ()
>>> [] = {}
>>> [] = set()
>>> list() = ()
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
>>> () = []
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: can't assign to ()
>>> {} = []
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: can't assign to literal
>>> set() = []
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
>>>

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-01-20 09:25:19	Kyle.Buzsaki	set	recipients: + Kyle.Buzsaki, rhettinger, Devin Jeanpierre, r.david.murray, Cesar.Kawakami
2015-01-20 09:25:19	Kyle.Buzsaki	set	messageid: <1421745919.75.0.774207113291.issue23275@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2015-01-20 09:25:19	Kyle.Buzsaki	create