Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > Nor are most people. Nor is Python, in some places -- it seems like > people forgot about it when writing some bits of the grammar.
Got an example where you can use a,b but not [a,b] or (a,b)? -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
