[issue11400] Remove reference to pre 1.5 assignment behavior

Georg Brandl added the comment: Thanks, fixed in f7e04a9566c4. -- nosy: +georg.brandl resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue11400] Remove reference to pre 1.5 assignment behavior

New submission from Terry J. Reedy : In Language Ref, 6.2 assignments, delete "(This rule is relaxed as of Python 1.5; in earlier versions, the object had to be a tuple. Since strings are sequences, an assignment like a, b = "xy" is now legal as long as the string has the right length.)"