Now, this is some next level shit in python (or I just don't know about it yet).
Anyway, I only discovered this thing lately

What @irene said. You can do the same in PHP and JS also.

It can be done in many many languages and works fine. What's the problem?

Generally you would assign types like this for initialisation.

Aka
// all these are now Integers
a = b = c = d = int

// all these are now Boolean
e = f = g = bool

And so on.

But assigning a single string to multiple variables 🤷‍♂️

You can also do x, y = 1, 2 😉