"ast" writes: >>>> [a,b,c,d] = 1,2,3,4 >>>> a > 1 >>>> b > 2 >>>> c > 3 >>>> d > 4 > > I have never seen this syntax before. Is it documented. > Is there a name for that ?
I remember being unhappy when a similar assignment with round brackets turned out to be invalid syntax. Then I learned (in this newsgroup) that square brackets would work, and so they did, and then I was happy again, though it felt a bit inconsistent. When I try it today, round brackets also work, both in 2.6.6 and 3.4.0 - no idea what version it was where they failed or if I'm imagining the whole thing. The page that Joel Goldstick cited claims that Guido van Rossum himself has called the left side of a statement like "w,x,y,z = t3" (no brackets on that page) "the list of variables" (but their link to the evidence is dead). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
