Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >> Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Do your tuple destructuring in the first statement in your body and >>> nothing will break. >> >> Unless you were using a lambda, which is quite useful as argument to >> "sort". > > So write a separate def statement.
That is a valid possibility, but loses the succinctness of a short lambda. Some uses of lambda+unpacking can also be replaced by operator.itemgetter. > If you do not want to do that, don't run with 3.0. Tuple unpacking in parameters is a useful feature, but hardly reason enough to abandon the future of the language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
