[Tutor] REPL format

[Jim Mooney]

On 25 April 2015 at 17:43, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:


> know what's going on. I seem to recall you are using Python 3,
> is that correct?
>
>
I guess I should specify from now on py3 on win xp

Another question - why does the first assignment work but not the second. I
can see it's a syntax error but if Py can unpack in the first case why
can't it unpack the same thing in the second?

>>> a, *b = 'good', 'bad', 'ugly'
>>> a
'good'
>>> b
['bad', 'ugly']
>>> a, *b = 'ham', 'eggs', 'spam'
>>> a
'ham'
>>> b
['eggs', 'spam']
>>> *b = 'eggs', 'spam'
SyntaxError: starred assignment target must be in a list or tuple
>>>

-- 
Jim

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