Re: [Python-ideas] Python Users Aren't Perfect

Guido van Rossum wrote:

(I think this was also in the days that you couldn't unpack a list -- but I'm not actually sure of that. I do know that tuple unpacking was always in the language.)

I can definitely remember a time when you had to use (...) to unpack tuples and [...] to unpack lists. My Python memory doesn't go back further than that, though. -- Greg