Misleading error message of the day

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.3466.1323425036.27778.python-list at python.org>,
 Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel at sequans.com> wrote:

> Ethan Furman wrote:
> > Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> >> You have to opportunity to not use unpacking anymore :o) There is a 
> >> recent thread were the dark side of unpacking was exposed. Unpacking 
> >> is a cool feautre for very small applications but should be avoided 
> >> whenever possible otherwise.
> >
> > Which thread was that?
> >
> >
> > ~Ethan~
> "A tuple in order to pass returned values ?" was the thread.
> 
> JM

To save everybody the effort of finding it, I think he's talking about 
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.python/2vcwYfIQSOM/discussion