what does (x , y) = (4 , 5) signify in Python? Is it a variable declaration or object. Please clarify

Question

I am stuck in this. I am not able to understand this.

Answer 1

It's the same as doing this:

x = 4
y = 5

Answer 2

It's a fancy way to declare two variables with one line.

This:

t = (4, 5)

gives you a normal tuple and you can get the first value with t[0] and the second value with t[1].

Now python has a feature called "destructuring" for extracting multiple things out of a tuple (or a list), so writing

(x, y) = t

assigns t[0] == 4 to x, and t[1] == 5 to y.

So when you write

(x, y) = (4, 5)

it's all mashed into a single line. It's the same as

x = 4
y = 5