15 Oct
2016
15 Oct
'16
10:36 a.m.
Martti Kühne wrote:
You brush over the fact that *t is not limited to a replacement by a comma-separated sequence of items from t, but *t is actually a replacement by that comma-separated sequence of items from t INTO an external context.
Indeed. In situations where there isn't any context for the interpretation of *, it's not allowed. For example:
x = *(1, 2, 3) File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can't use starred expression here
But
x = 1, *(2, 3) x (1, 2, 3)
The * is allowed there because it's already in a context where a comma-separated list has meaning. -- Greg