On 2024-01-13 at 11:34:29 +0100, Left Right <olegsivo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Python term, at least colloquially, is "tuple unpacking." That quote is from me. Please do preserve attributions. > Well, why use colloquialism if there's a language specification? Also, > there weren't any tuples used in my example, at least not explicitly > (i could've been a tuple, but that wasn't specified). According to the language specification,⁰ it's a "target list," and there can be more than one target in that list. The unpacking isn't really called anything, it's just the way Python assignment works, all the way back to its earliest stages.¹ ⁰ https://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#assignment-statements, ¹ https://docs.python.org/release/1.4/ref/ref6.html#HDR2 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
