[Python-Dev] Tuple/list assignment question (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 5 03:16:14 CEST 2004


This proposal has come up several times before (for the record, I like it).

The fact that it keeps coming up suggests that it's a natural thing for people to want to do once they've seen the use of

I can't remember seeing any particular objection -- just a matter of inertia, I think (i.e. nice to have but not compelling enough to spur the BDFL to accept it).

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