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5619.3.2 Assignment nodes</A>
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60There is a collection of nodes used to represent assignments. Each
61assignment statement in the source code becomes a single
62<tt class="class">Assign</tt> node in the AST. The <tt class="member">nodes</tt> attribute is a
63list that contains a node for each assignment target. This is
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