On 21 December 2011 15:48, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Clarification: where can packing/unpacking syntax be used? > > It would be great if it were valid essentially anywhere (not limited to > parameter passing). > > What about constructs like: > > a, @tuple tail, b = sequence?
>>> a, *b, c = range(10) >>> a, b, c (0, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], 9) It's just a proposed syntax change, effectively, so yes. However, http://bugs.python.org/issue2292 covers the ones we don't have (that we should :P). This discussion doesn't cover that. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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