On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Another alternative is to put a list literal on the lefthand side: > >>>> def f(): yield 42 > > ... >>>> [result] = f() >>>> result > 42
Huh, was not aware of that alternate syntax. > (If you're worried: neither the list nor the tuple will be created; the > bytecode is identical in both cases) It can't possibly be created anyway. Python doesn't have a notion of "assignable thing that, when assigned to, will assign to something else" like C's pointers or C++'s references. There's nothing that you could put into the list that would have this behaviour. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
