Is there a standardized method to swap two variables in Python?

Question

In Python, I\'ve seen two variable values swapped using this syntax:

left, right = right, left

Is this considered the standard way to swap

Answer 1

You can combine tuple and XOR swaps: x, y = x ^ x ^ y, x ^ y ^ y

x, y = 10, 20

print('Before swapping: x = %s, y = %s '%(x,y))

x, y = x ^ x ^ y, x ^ y ^ y

print('After swapping: x = %s, y = %s '%(x,y))

or

x, y = 10, 20

print('Before swapping: x = %s, y = %s '%(x,y))

print('After swapping: x = %s, y = %s '%(x ^ x ^ y, x ^ y ^ y))

Using lambda:

x, y = 10, 20

print('Before swapping: x = %s, y = %s' % (x, y))

swapper = lambda x, y : ((x ^ x ^ y), (x ^ y ^ y))

print('After swapping: x = %s, y = %s ' % swapper(x, y))

Output:

Before swapping: x =  10 , y =  20
After swapping: x =  20 , y =  10