Aug. 16, 2014
7:25 a.m.
Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:
If people were going to be prone to mistake
with (a, b, c): ...
as including a tuple
… because the parens are a strong signal “this is an expression to be evaluated, resulting in a single value to use in the statement”.
they would have already mistaken:
with a, b, c: ...
the same way. But they haven't.
Right. The presence or absence of parens make a big semantic difference. -- \ “The process by which banks create money is so simple that the | `\ mind is repelled.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, _Money: Whence It | _o__) Came, Where It Went_, 1975 | Ben Finney