[Python-Dev] Half-baked proposal: * (and **?) in assignments (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
23 Nov 2002 10:25:35 +0100

Brian Quinlan <brian@sweetapp.com> writes:

Need is a bit too strong. But which do you like better:

year, month, day = time.localtime()[0:3] or year, month, day, *dummy = time.localtime()

lttime = time.localtime() year = ltime.tm_year month = ltime.tm_mon day = ltime.tm_mday

Readability counts.

Actually, you may just avoid the assignments altogether, and just use the named fields.

Regards, Martin