On Apr 17, 12:07 pm, Sion Arrowsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In Python, you usually can use parentheses to split something over > >several lines. But you can't use parentheses for an assignment of > >several lines. > > Yes you can, you just need an iterable of the right length on > the other side for the tuple unpacking to work: > > >>> (CONSTANT1, > > ... # This isn't a syntax error > ... CONSTANT2, > ... CONSTANT3, #and neither is this > ... CONSTANT) = [1] * 4>>> [ (k, v) for k, v in locals().items() if > k.startswith("CONSTANT") ] > > [('CONSTANT', 1), ('CONSTANT1', 1), ('CONSTANT3', 1), ('CONSTANT2', 1)] >
That's not the same kind of multiple assignment. There, you're just unpacking several items from a sequence into several variables on the left. Some would say that's a list assignment. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list