[Python-3000] PEP 3132: Extended Iterable Unpacking

[Simon Percivall]

On 2 maj 2007, at 20.08, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> [Georg]
>>>>>>> a, *b, c = range(5)
>>>>>>> a
>>>>     0
>>>>>>> c
>>>>     4
>>>>>>> b
>>>>     [1, 2, 3]
>
> <snip>
> That sounds messy; only allowing *a at the end seems a bit more
> manageable. But I'll hold off until I can shoot holes in your
> implementation. ;-)

As the patch works right now, any iterator will be exhausted,
but if the proposal is constrained to only allowing the *name at
the end, wouldn't a more useful behavior be to not exhaust the
iterator, making it similar to:

 > it = iter(range(10))
 > a = next(it)
 > b = it

or would this be too surprising?

//Simon