kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still don't get it. If we write > > y = 'Y' > x, = y > > what's the difference now between x and y? And if there's no > difference, what's the point of performing such "unpacking"?
None whatsoever when the string has only one character, but with 2 characters it becomes an obfuscated way of checking that there was only one character: >>> x, = 'a' >>> x, = 'ab' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#29>", line 1, in <module> x, = 'ab' ValueError: too many values to unpack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list