[Python-3000] PEP 3132: Extended Iterable Unpacking (original) (raw)

Simon Percivall percivall at gmail.com
Thu May 3 12:26:56 CEST 2007

On 2 maj 2007, at 20.08, Guido van Rossum wrote:

[Georg]

a, *b, c = range(5) a 0 c 4 b [1, 2, 3] That sounds messy; only allowing *a at the end seems a bit more manageable. But I'll hold off until I can shoot holes in your implementation. ;-)

As the patch works right now, any iterator will be exhausted, but if the proposal is constrained to only allowing the *name at the end, wouldn't a more useful behavior be to not exhaust the iterator, making it similar to:

it = iter(range(10)) a = next(it) b = it

or would this be too surprising?

//Simon

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