Puzzle: anonymous tuple unpacking w/o eval

[Edward K. Ream]

> > Is there a way to do something similar with locals() so as not to
> > affect the global namespace? The documentation sternly warns against
> > modifying locals().
>
> No, but the obvious thing to do is to modify a class object which keeps
> your extra names out of the global namespace:

Clever.  Thanks for suggesting this.

> That only works if the function name is also the name of a global
variable,
> which is rarely true if you are uses classes and methods.

This doesn't bother me.  self is an object from which all else can be
gleaned.

Edward
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