[issue25542] tuple unpacking on assignment should be lazy for unpacked generators

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

But when the starred element is not the final one, it couldn’t be lazy, so you would end up with an inconsistency.

a, *rest, z = <generator>

Also, it would be inconsistent with other kinds of iterables, which get turned into list objects.

>>> a, *aa = (1, 2)
>>> aa
[2]
>>> a, *aa = "abc"
>>> aa
['b', 'c']

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nosy: +martin.panter

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