Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > >> 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. > > You are imagining the whole thing. Either that, or you had some other > problem with your tuple unpacking which kept it from working. That has > been a part of the language as far back as I can remember. I started > using Python around the 1.0 timeframe.
At least they work now, and clearly are intended to work. But I just checked and I have scripts with backslash-terminated lines where I'm sure I wanted to use those brackets. Could it have been some sort of temporary regression? Well, never mind :) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
