On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:57:57PM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 26/04/15 02:28, Jim Mooney wrote: > > >Another question - why does the first assignment work but not the second. I > >can see it's a syntax error but if Py can unpack in the first case why > >can't it unpack the same thing in the second? > > I'm not sure what you expect it to unpack. Its already a variable > pointing at a tuple without the *. What do you expect the * to do?
Well, it could unpack the values of the right and re-pack them on the left, except that would be a waste of time and effort :-) -- Steve _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
