"bruno modulix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ron wrote: > >>The problem here is that Kay's proposition mixes two points: flexible > >>tuple unpacking and a new syntax for anonymous functions. > > > > > > Yes, two different problems. I don't think anything needs to be done > > to tuples myself. I tend to use lists more anyway. > > They are two different beasts. Note that you don't have anything like > list unpacking, now tuple unpacking is pretty common in Python (swap, > multiple return values, formatted strings and outputs, ...).
All the following are possible: >>> (x,y,z) = (1,2,3) >>> (x,y,z) = [1,2,3] >>> [x,y,z] = (1,2,3) >>> [x,y,z] = [1,2,3] What exactly do you mean by "don't have anything like list unpacking" ? George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
