[Python-Dev] Extending tuple unpacking

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 16:54:19 CEST 2005


Nick Coghlan wrote:
> For me, it stops when the rules for positional name binding are more 
> consistent across operations that bind names (although complete consistency 
> isn't possible, given that function calls don't unpack sequences automatically).

Oops - forgot to delete this bit once I realised that functions actually *do* 
unpack the arugment tuple automatically. It's just that an argument which is a 
single sequence gets put into a singleton tuple before being unpacked.

Cheers,
Nick.

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