<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Greg Ewing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz" target="_blank">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Chris Angelico wrote:<br>
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x, y, * = iter # unpack into nothing<br>
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I'm surprised this isn't already allowed. It seems like the<br>
One Obvious Way to me.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not that surprised. While it appears to rhyme with the use of a lone '*' in function signatures, it would actually mean the opposite: in signatures it means "don't allow any more". These opposite meanings would cause some confusion.<br></div></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido" target="_blank">python.org/~guido</a>)</div>
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