[Python-ideas] How assignment should work with generators?

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How about x, y ?= iterable with ?= being the lazy assignment operator?

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 06:31:28PM -0800, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > Believe the question behind the idea was, how to grab a couple items and
> > then *stop?*  If the syntax route is chosen, I'd expect something that
> > tells me it is going to stop, like a "full stop" as the period/dot is
> > called in jolly ol' England, e.g.:
> >
> >     x, y, . = iterable
>
> Sadly, that fails the "syntax should not look like grit on Tim's
> monitor" test. Ellipsis at least has three pieces of grit in sequence,
> which makes it more noticable.
>
>
> > Not sure about the second comma though.
>
> Without the comma, it will be visually too hard to distinguish from
>
>     x, y , = iterable
>
>
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> Steve
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