In "Learning Python," by Lutz and Ascher, there's a table showing different
assignment statement forms. One form shown is list assignment. The authors
give this as an example:
[spam, ham] = ['yum', 'YUM']
I don't see how this is any different than a tuple unpacking assignment:
>>> a, b = 1, 2
>>> a, b
(1, 2)
>>> [a, b] = [1, 2]
>>> a, b
(1, 2)
In both instances the names a and b are both mapped to 1 and 2 so why are there
two different forms?
Thanks for any answers.
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