On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why is tuple unpacking limited to the last argument? Is it just for >> the parallel with the function definition, where anything following it >> is keyword-only? > > Lack of a convincing use case, and the position of the following arguments > would then be dependent upon the length of the tuple, which in many cases > could result in subtle bugs.
Okay. Just seemed an odd restriction; I can unpack an iterable into a function's args (great!), I can have other args before that tuple (handy!), but I can't have any after. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list