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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri May 4 06:26:24 CEST 2007

Steven Bethard wrote:

This brings up the question of why the patch produces lists, not tuples. What's the reasoning behind that?

When dealing with an iterator, you don't know the length in advance, so the only way to get a tuple would be to produce a list first and then create a tuple from it.

-- Greg

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