[Tutor] REPL format

[Alan Gauld]

On 26/04/15 02:28, Jim Mooney wrote:

> 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?

I'm not sure what you expect it to unpack. Its already a variable 
pointing at a tuple without the *. What do you expect the * to do?

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

 >>> b = 'eggs', 'spam'
 >>> b
('eggs', 'spam')



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