How Python assign multiple variables at one line works?

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There’s something called “expansion assignment” in Python.

Long story short, you can expand an iterable with assignment. For example, this code evaluates and expands the right side, which is actually a tuple, and assigns it to the left side:

a, b = 3, 5

Or

tup = (3, 5)
a, b = tup

This means in Python you can exchange two variables with one line:

a, b = b, a

It evaluates the right side, creates a tuple (b, a), then expands the tuple and assigns to the left side.

There’s a special rule that if any of the left-hand-side variables “overlap”, the assignment goes left-to-right.

i = 0
l = [1, 3, 5, 7]
i, l[i] = 2, 0  # l == [1, 3, 0, 7] instead of [0, 3, 5, 7]

So in your code,

node.next, node.prev = self.next, self

This assignment is parallel, as node.next and node.prev don’t “overlap”. But for the next line:

self.next, self.next.prev = node, node

As self.next.prev depends on self.next, they “overlap”, thus self.next is assigned first.

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