I don't think he was explicitly wanting to initialize things to zero, but rather unpack an arbitrary sequence into a tuple (could perhaps be the fibonnacci sequence for example).
How about: >>> def zeros(count): ... for i in range(count): ... yield 0 ... >>> a,b,c = zeros(3) >>> a 0 >>> b 0 >>> c 0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list