On Jul 18, 8:01 am, DaveM <asm... at dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:32:30 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote: > > >>> *x, = [3] > > >>> x > >[3] > > What does *x signify? Mostly that Terry is using Python 3.0. See: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3132/