How about x, y ?= iterable with ?= being the lazy assignment operator? On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 06:31:28PM -0800, Mike Miller wrote: > > > Believe the question behind the idea was, how to grab a couple items and > > then *stop?* If the syntax route is chosen, I'd expect something that > > tells me it is going to stop, like a "full stop" as the period/dot is > > called in jolly ol' England, e.g.: > > > > x, y, . = iterable > > Sadly, that fails the "syntax should not look like grit on Tim's > monitor" test. Ellipsis at least has three pieces of grit in sequence, > which makes it more noticable. > > > > Not sure about the second comma though. > > Without the comma, it will be visually too hard to distinguish from > > x, y , = iterable > > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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