[issue4199] add shorthand global and nonlocal statements

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> added the comment:
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> I think I may have been merging add_ast_fields when I wrote the patch.
>
> Here's a new patch that handles "global x, = (5,)". To do it, I added a
> new flag* to the Global and Nonlocal AST objects that indicates whether
> the value needs to be unpacked or not.

You shouldn't need to do this.  The unpack is implied if the number of
identifiers is greater than 1.

Jeremy



> * The flag is an int. The bool AST type was removed in py3k.
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> Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12254/global_nonlocal_shorthand2.patch
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