Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 07:33:54PM +0000, Steve Barnes wrote:
Just a thought but what about a syntax something along the lines of:
a, b, *remainder = iterable
Where remainder becomes the iterable with the first two values consumed
by assigning to a & b.
Guido's time machine strikes again. That has worked since 3.3 if not
older.
This is not quite the same thing -- the rest of the items
are extracted and put in a new list. I think Steve Barnes is
suggesting that the iterator should be left alone and
bound to the * target instead.
That would be an incompatible change.
--
Greg
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