On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:15:30AM +0900, Bill Baxter wrote: >>> a, b = b, a; >>> >> This is the *python* way, and I love that too. > > I don't know where that syntax came from, but but I'm pretty sure it > predates python by a good bit. Probably Ada or something. Ada doesn't have multiple assignment. CLU had it in 1974, though. David