Nov. 27, 2017
4:03 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 01:01:01AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
And the status quo is noisy and has duplicated information (you have to match the ", 2" to the number of assignment targets).
Er, not really. How about:
a, b = islice(iterable, 3, 10, 4)
A somewhat unusual case, to be sure, but still legal.
Well, sure. But the situation that's equivalent to the proposal here is simply islice(iterable, 2). There's no proposal to have something that assigns the way you're slicing there, and there's certainly no proposal to abolish islice. ChrisA