Pythonification of the asterisk-based collection packing/unpacking syntax

[Rick Johnson]

On Dec 18, 8:35 am, Eelco <hoogendoorn.ee... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 18, 6:33 am, Evan Driscoll <edrisc... at wisc.edu> wrote:

> Good point; technically the askeriskes could be kept for backwards
> compatibility, but that would break 'there should only be one way to
> do it'.

I believe it's high time for the upper society of this community to
realize that the small breaks in backward compatibility in Python 3000
were only the beginning. Python is evolving past even what Guido could
have dreamed. He can not hold the reins of this unwieldy beast any
longer.