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19.3.2 Assignment nodes
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There is a collection of nodes used to represent assignments. Each
assignment statement in the source code becomes a single
<tt class=
"class">Assign
</tt> node in the AST. The
<tt class=
"member">nodes
</tt> attribute is a
list that contains a node for each assignment target. This is
necessary because assignment can be chained, e.g.
<code>a = b =
2</code>.
Each
<tt class=
"class">Node
</tt> in the list will be one of the following classes:
<tt class=
"class">AssAttr
</tt>,
<tt class=
"class">AssList
</tt>,
<tt class=
"class">AssName
</tt>, or
<tt class=
"class">AssTuple
</tt>.
Each target assignment node will describe the kind of object being
assigned to:
<tt class=
"class">AssName
</tt> for a simple name, e.g.
<code>a =
1</code>.
<tt class=
"class">AssAttr
</tt> for an attribute assigned, e.g.
<code>a.x =
1</code>.
<tt class=
"class">AssList
</tt> and
<tt class=
"class">AssTuple
</tt> for list and tuple expansion
respectively, e.g.
<code>a, b, c = a_tuple
</code>.
The target assignment nodes also have a
<tt class=
"member">flags
</tt> attribute that
indicates whether the node is being used for assignment or in a delete
statement. The
<tt class=
"class">AssName
</tt> is also used to represent a delete
statement, e.g.
<tt class=
"class">del x
</tt>.
When an expression contains several attribute references, an
assignment or delete statement will contain only one
<tt class=
"class">AssAttr
</tt>
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references will be represented as
<tt class=
"class">Getattr
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<tt class=
"member">expr
</tt> attribute of the
<tt class=
"class">AssAttr
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