Rats! vararg assignments don't work

[Sion Arrowsmith]

samwyse  <dejanews at email.com> wrote:
>> samwyse wrote:
>>>I thought that I'd try this:
>>>     first, *rest = arglist
>>>Needless to say, it didn't work.
> [ ... ]
>My use-case is (roughtly) this:
>     first, *rest = f.readline().split()
>     return dispatch_table{first}(*rest)

first, rest = f.readline().split(None, 1)
return dispatch_table{first}(*rest.split())

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