Re: get_used_memory

Jon Ribbens <[email protected]> writes:
>>  { a : int(b)) for x in xs if (a,b := x.split()) }
> No, for three reasons. Firstly, the lines with units result in x.split()
> having 3 members, so you can't assign it to a 2-tuple.

Oh yes I had intended to say x.split()[:2] but somehow left that out.

> Secondly, it appears that (a, b := x) means "create a tuple whose
> first member is a and whose second member is x, and also assign x to
> b", which is not at all what we need.

Yuck, I had expected tuple unpacking.  Sounds like a pitfall comparable
to "=" vs "==" that kept the := operator out of the language for so
long.  Oh well.