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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 4 06:13:21 CEST 2007

Simon Percivall wrote:

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?

It would surprise the heck out of me when I started with something that wasn't an iterator and ended up with b being something that I could only iterate and couldn't index.

-- Greg

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