<div dir="ltr">ah, sorry… forget that I said "just as it is now" — I am losing track of what's allowed in Python now!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Neil Girdhar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mistersheik@gmail.com" target="_blank">mistersheik@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Victor Stinner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:victor.stinner@gmail.com" target="_blank">victor.stinner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">To be logic, I expect [(*item) for item in mylist] to simply return mylist.</p></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>If you want simply mylist as a list, that is [*mylist] </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">[*(item) for item in mylist] with mylist=[(1, 2), (3,)] could return [1, 2, 3], </p></blockquote><div>right</div><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">as just [*mylist], so "unpack" mylist.</p></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>[*mylist] remains equivalent list(mylist), just as it is now. In one case, you're unpacking the elements of the list, in the other you're unpacking the list itself.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">Victor</p>
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