[Python-ideas] Python Users Aren't Perfect

[Greg Ewing]

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