* for generic unpacking and not just for arguments?

[Mel]

Russell Warren wrote:

> Maybe it's just that * is strictly for arguments, and trying it for
> generic tuple unpacking is abuse (which is down the corridor in 12A).

I'd agree with that.  It's a feature of function calls, not a feature of 
sequence types, so that you can handle a set of function arguments as a 
bunch, and apply them when you want.

The other function call feature that sequence types don't do is

a, b, c = **{'b':3, 'c':a, 'a':c}


	Mel.