More random python observations from a perl programmer
Toby Dickenson
htrd90 at zepler.org
Sun Aug 22 08:58:51 EDT 1999
nascheme at ucalgary.ca (Neil Schemenauer) wrote:
>This is called tuple unpacking. It is definitely cool. In the
>newer versions of Python unpacking works on other sequences as
>well. For example:
>
> x, y, z = (1, 2, 3)
> a, b, c = [1, 2, 3]
Cool, I never knew that worked with other sequences too!
I guess "_tuple_ unpacking" isn't the best name for this anymore ;-)
Thanks,
Toby Dickenson
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