Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > You're right, that would not be so far off. > But then, the following should be also supported: > > *x, y = a # x, y = a[:-1], y = a[-1] > x, *y, z = a # x, y, z = a[0], a[1:-1], a[-1] > > Of course, there can be only one variable with an asterisk. > (But note that in the situation of a function taking parameters, that > variable must always be the last.) > > But I don't know if this is really useful enough...
things like this are proposed from time to time (I haven't looked, but there might even be a PEP somewhere). however, function calls and assignments are two different things, and I'm not convinced that it's not yet another hypergeneralization... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
