Indexing Into A Tuple

[Erik Max Francis]

Tim Daneliuk wrote:

> for x, y in MyTuple:
>         print x, y
> 
> Intuitively (and, obviously, incorrectly) it seems to me that the 1st
> time through, the second example should return:
> 
>       x=("a", "b") and y=("c", "d")
> 
> Instead, it returns x="a", and y="b" just like the first example.
> 
> Why?

It means the same thing as

	for z in MyTuple:
	    x, y = z
            print x, y

See it now?

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