[Python-ideas] iterable.__unpack__ method

[Jan Kaliszewski]

24.02.2013 07:24, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> And to me the ... Looks too much like something that consumes the
> rest, rather than leaving it.

To me either. And we already have the syntax for consuming the rest:

     a, b, *seq = iterable

But maybe it could be extended to include the following variant:

     a, b, *() = iterable

-- expressing the "leave the rest untouched" behaviour? Doesn't such
an empty-tuple-literal-like syntax suggest strongly enough that
no items are consumed?

Cheers.
*j