unpack sequence to tuple?

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:19:07 +0100, Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
>2.1 contains a whole lot more of those subtle fixes. Little annoying things
>that noone (read: not Guido :) bothered to fix before. (And also some nice
>large architectural changes, of course :)

Agreed; what's nice about 2.1 is that most of the new features, such
as function attributes, rich comparisons, &c. arose out of some user
demand, not just out of random featuritis.  Just today, I ran into a
bit of ugliness because cmp() has no idea what comparison operator is
being requested, and there's no good way to tidy it up in 2.0.  The
rich comparisons in 2.1 will allow fixing it properly, which is
pleasing.

(2.0 added comprehensions; 2.1 adds comparisons.  Will 2.2 add
"compacting"?  Or "comptrolling"?)

--amk