why does this unpacking work

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Carsten Haese <carsten at uniqsys.com> (CH) wrote:

>CH> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 15:14, John Salerno wrote:

>>> What seems to be happening is that 'for x,y in t' is acting like:
>>> 
>>> for x in t:
>>> for y,z in x:
>>> #then it does it correctly

>CH> No, it's actually behaving like

>CH> for x in t:
>CH>   y,z = t
       y,z = x
>CH>   # do something with y and z

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