On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 9:39:27 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Peter Otten wrote: > >>>> Another alternative is to put a list literal on the lefthand side: > >>>> > >>>>>>> def f(): yield 42 > >>>> > >>>> ... > >>>>>>> [result] = f() > >>>>>>> result > >>>> 42 > >>> > >>> Huh, was not aware of that alternate syntax. > >> > >> Nor are most people. Nor is Python, in some places -- it seems like > >> people forgot about it when writing some bits of the grammar. > > > > Got an example where you can use a,b but not [a,b] or (a,b)? > > >>> def f(a, (b, c)): > ... print a, b, c
What the hell is that?! First I am hearing/seeing it. Whats it called? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
