On 27/11/2017 21:49, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Chris Angelico
mailto:rosuav@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Guido van Rossum
mailto:guido@python.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Greg Ewing mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> > wrote: >> >> Chris Angelico wrote: >>> >>> The problem is that it depends on internal whitespace to >>> distinguish it from augmented assignment; >> >> >> Ah, didn't spot that. I guess the ellipsis is the next best >> thing then. >> >> An alternative would be to require parens: >> >> (x, y, *) = z > > > But that would have the same issue. > > Is this problem really important enough that it requires dedicated syntax? > Isn't the itertools-based solution good enough? (Or failing that, couldn't > we add something to itertools to make it more readable rather than going > straight to new syntax?) I don't think there's much that can be done without syntax; the biggest problem IMO is that you need to tell islice how many targets it'll be assigned into. It needs some interpreter support to express "grab as many as you have targets for, leaving everything else behind" without stating how many that actually is. So the question is whether that is sufficiently useful to justify extending the syntax. There are a number of potential advantages and several competing syntax options, and this suggestion keeps coming up, so I think a PEP is warranted.
OK, that's reasonable, and at first blush the ellipsis proposal looks okay. My PEP queue for Python 3.7 is full though, so I would like to put this off until 3.8.
-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido
Can we please take a note to ensure any future PEP clearly states which ellipsis (personally I prefer the first) of: - as 3 consecutive full stop characters (U+002E) i.e. ... - the Chicago system of 3 space separated full stops . . . - Unicode Horizontal ellipsis (U+2026) (at least there is a keyboard short cut for this) … - Unicode Midline horizontal ellipsis (U+22EF) ⋯ - any of the other ellipsis characters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis#Computer_representations) As clarifying this early could save a lot of later discussion such as the recent minus, hyphen, underscore debate. -- Steve (Gadget) Barnes Any opinions in this message are my personal opinions and do not reflect those of my employer. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com