New submission from Terry J. Reedy : In Language Ref, 6.2 assignments, delete "(This rule is relaxed as of Python 1.5; in earlier versions, the object had to be a tuple. Since strings are sequences, an assignment like a, b = "xy" is now legal as long as the string has the right length.)" ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 130071 nosy: docs@python, terry.reedy priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Remove reference to pre 1.5 assignment behavior versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue11400 _______________________________________