* I tried out the new python3.5 rc1. I feel there is an inconsistency in *>* unpacking generalizations. *iterable is considered error but *iterable, *>* is a tuple. Should we make *iterable a list instead? This will be a *>* nice shortcut to expand an iterable?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Balakrishnan Balasubramanian <balakrishnan.erode at gmail.com <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas>> wrote: * That is no inconsitency. The fact that `*iterable,` is a tuple has nothing to do with unpacking generalizations. It is a tuple, because it's a tuple literal.

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*range(5), (0, 1, 2, 3, 4) (*range(5),) (0, 1, 2, 3, 4) (-1, *range(5), 5) (-1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) [-1, *range(5), 5] [-1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] [*range(5)] [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] {*range(5)} {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}

Regards, Adam Bartoš