[Python-Dev] Tuple/list assignment question

[Guido van Rossum]

For the record, let me just say that I'm -1 on adding this feature
now.  It's only a minor convenience while it's a fairly big change to
the parser and code generator, but most of all, Python's growth needs
to be reduced.  If we were to add every "nice" feature that was
invented (or present in other languages), Python would lose one of its
main charms, which is that it is really a rather simple language that
can be learned and put to production quickly.

So while I appreciate the idea (which BTW has been proposed before) I
think it's not worth adding now, and if you don't hear from me again
on this topic it's because I haven't changed my mind...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)