Multiple assignment?

[Irmen de Jong]

Mehta, Anish wrote:
> Can someone tell me the what is being done here in this line of code.
> 
> dir, file = os.path.split(input)
> 

Your message title was already on the right track.
This is a Tuple Assignment (also called Tuple Unpacking).

os.path.split returns a tuple with 2 elements; (directoryname, filename).
Using tuple unpacking these two elements of the tuple
are assigned to "dir" and "file", respectively.


--Irmen

PS: bad idea to use "dir" and "file" because
you'll hide the builtin "dir" and "file" identifiers.