A new to Python question

[Steven Bethard]

M.E.Farmer wrote:
> (x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) = abc(x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv)
> This will only create a tuple in memory that has no name to reference
> it by!

Huh?  This binds the names "x", "y", "dotp", "sumx" and "maxv" to the 
values returned by abc:

py> def abc(*args):
...     return args
...
py> (x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) = abc(2,3,5,7,11)
py> x
2
py> y
3
py> dotp
5
py> sumx
7
py> maxv
11

Of course, the parentheses around x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv are unnecessary.

STeVe