In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>kj wrote: >> I just came across an assignment of the form >> >> x, = y >> >> where y is a string (in case it matters). >> >> 1. What's the meaning of the comma in the LHS of the assignment? >It's unpacking a 1-tuple: > (x,) = y >The parentheses here are not necessary and are sometimes left out. I still don't get it. If we write y = 'Y' x, = y what's the difference now between x and y? And if there's no difference, what's the point of performing such "unpacking"? TIA! kynn -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
