[Python-ideas] Re: f-strings as assignment targets

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 17:04, Steven D'Aprano steve@pearwood.info wrote:

In general, Python bindings are *all or nothing* -- either all the targets get bound, or none of them.

I wonder if this could work with the proposed pattern matching statement. The current proposal doesn't allow it, but maybe a future enhancement would make something like this possible:

match the_input: case "{one} {two} {three}": print("Got three numbers", one, two, three)

You'd need some sort of "matching object" rather than a string there (strings already have a meaning in the proposal) but maybe something could be made to work?

Paul