i was laying in bed thinking about how interpreters work and thought of this hypothetical that i just had to try
@locness3 im not quite sure, im just used to people always doing assignment statements per line, so i guess this just looks wrong
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This is called chained assignment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science)#Chained_assignment
And it's handled differently in different languages. In Python it seemingly works exactly it would in C, but in fact it's somewhat of a special case.
It's often done one-per-line just to improve readability — so people using different languages won't be confused by behaviour they might not expect.
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