Nov. 27, 2017
9:18 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
x, y, * = iter # unpack into nothing
I'm surprised this isn't already allowed. It seems like the One Obvious Way to me.
I'm not that surprised. While it appears to rhyme with the use of a lone '*' in function signatures, it would actually mean the opposite: in signatures it means "don't allow any more". These opposite meanings would cause some confusion. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)