Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets?

[Gregory Ewing]

gc wrote:

> Alternatively, is there a version of iterable multiplication that
> creates new objects rather than just copying the reference?

You can use a list comprehension:

   a, b, c, d, e = [dict() for i in xrange(5)]

or a generator expression:

   a, b, c, d, e = (dict() for i in xrange(5))

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Greg