Tuple packing. No longer supported in Python 3, but in available in Python <= 2.
Skip On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
