On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 5:27 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Background
> ----------
>
> Iterable unpacking assignment:
>
> values = (1, 2, 3)
> a, b, c = *values
>
> is a very successful and powerful technique in Python.
>
Your proposed syntax seems to rest on being similar to this syntax for
iterable unpacking. But that asterisk isn't valid syntax, so I'm confused.
This is valid syntax:
a, b, c, *rest = values
but that doesn't make it make sense to write `... = **values` as you
suggest. And this is valid:
a, b, c = [*values]
but that asterisk has nothing to do with assignment.
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