On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:04 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Unfortunately, the empty tuple tends to be a singleton, so there is no way > to tell that red and default are (supposed to be) the same and blue is > (supposed to be) different: > > --> a = b = () > --> c = () > --> a is b > True > --> a is c > True > > If you have an idea on how to make that work I am interested.
Easy: allow an empty list to have the same meaning as an empty tuple. Every time you have [] in your source code, you're guaranteed to get a new (unique) empty list, and then multiple assignment will work. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
