Using py2.5.4 and entering the following lines in IDLE, I don't really understand why I get the result shown in line 8.
Note the difference between lines 7 and 10 is that 'else' clause result enclosed in brackets, however, in line 2, both the 'c,d' variables are assign correctly without the brackets being required. Any chance someone could enlighten me on the rules for tuple unpacking as this seems inconsistent. 1) >>> n = None 2) >>> c,d = n if n is not None else 0,0 3) >>> print c,d, type(c), type(d) 4) 0 0 <type 'int'> <type 'int'> 5) >>> n = 22,11 6) >>> print n, type(n) (22, 11) <type 'tuple'> 7) >>> c,d = n if n is not None else 0,0 8) >>> print c,d 9) (22, 11) 0 10) >>> c,d = n if n is not None else (0,0) 11) >>> print c,d 12) 22 11 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
