What syntax would you allow instead? Just del variable, variable, ...? On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Andrew Dalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For lack of a better term, I'll call this a destructuring del > > del (a, (b, (c))) > > I propose that it should not be valid in Python 3. > > It's supported in 2.x and 3.0a2. It's never caused anyone problems. > No one (that I can find through 10 minutes of grepping) uses it. > When I figured out that I could do it, by looking at the grammar, I > didn't believe it was valid. I still can't figure out why anyone > would use it. > > Python 3 removes support for destructuring in function calls > > def f((a,b)): # SyntaxError in Python3 > pass > > and I think this falls into the same category. > > I would even argue that > > del(x) > > should not be allowed because it's suggests and is likely based on > the false belief that 'del' is a function call. But I'm not > proposing getting rid of return(x). > > > Andrew > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org >
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