Is a variable swap guaranteed to be atomic in python?

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With reference to the following link: http://docs.python.org/faq/library.html#what-kinds-of-global-value-mutation-are-thread-safe

I wanted to know if the following:

(x, y) = (y, x)

will be guaranteed atomic in cPython. (x and y are both python variables)

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