Lesson 5
Writing Reusable and Self-explanatory Programs
Chapter 2: Shortcut assignment statements
Simultaneous variable assignments in Python
You have seen how you can swap variables when you have only the most basic programming features.
There is actually a different, recommended way to swap variables in Python.
In Python, you can actually assign values to multiple variable simultaneously. Of course, whether this is easy to read is a different question!
x, y = 15, 24
print(x)
print(y)
You can, however, take advantage of this feature, and swap variables the Pythonic way!
This is actually the recommended way to swap variables in Python.
x = 15
y = 24
x, y = y, x
print(x)
print(y)