Pythonification of the asterisk-based collection packing/unpacking syntax

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:35:20 -0800, alex23 wrote:

> Eelco <hoogendoorn.ee... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Having two seperate symbols seperated by whitespace, as in @list args
>> strikes me as a terrible break of normal python lexical rules.
> 
> You mean like 'is not'? And the upcoming 'yield from'?

Also "not in".

Space-delimited tokens are hardly rare in Python, e.g.:

import module as name
for x in sequence
if flag 
elif condition
while condition
with obj
del name


Nevertheless, I think the suggested syntax "@list args" is awful.


-- 
Steven