Feb. 7, 2020
8:10 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 23:14, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
How did we move from [*a,...] to print(*a,...)? They are quite different.
It was a good way to demonstrate evaluation order, as an expression with a visible side effect. What the expression [print("a"), *None, print("b")] prints before the "cannot unpack NoneType" exception, demonstrates what order the expressions were evaluated in. Paul