Rustom Mody wrote: > Well its cryptic and confusing (to me at least) > And is helped by adding 2 characters: > > (result,) = f() > > instead of > > result, = f()
Another alternative is to put a list literal on the lefthand side: >>> def f(): yield 42 ... >>> [result] = f() >>> result 42 (If you're worried: neither the list nor the tuple will be created; the bytecode is identical in both cases) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
