unpacking lists (there's more than one way to do it!)

[Roy Smith]

Philip Swartzleonard <starx at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Well, 3 lets you know that the person wants to be working with a list... 

I often use the [] construct when unpacking a long list:

class foo:
   def __init__ (self, values):
      [self.a,
       self.b,
       self.c,
       self.d,
       self.e,
       self.f,
       self.g] = values

If I left out the []'s, I'd have to put \'s at the end of each line, which 
I find rather ugly.