On Dec 28, 2:11 am, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 27, 5:10 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve > > +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:47:20 -0800, Eelco wrote: > > Your original use-case, where you want to change the type of tail from a > > list to something else, is simply solved by one extra line of code: > > > head, *tail = sequence > > tail = tuple(tail) > > i wonder if we could make this proposal a bit more "Pythonic"? Hmm... > > head, tuple(tail) = sequence > > ...YEP!
That has been considered; it was my first thought too, but this requires one to break the symmetry between collection packing and unpacking. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
