[Python-ideas] Unpack of sequences

[Carlo Pires]

Hi,

I was just wondering why unpack of sequences did not follow same behavior
of functions parameters. I mean:

first, *rest = 'a b c'.split()

should work in python, why doesn't it?

-- 
  Carlo Pires
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