Pythonification of the asterisk-based collection packing/unpacking syntax

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:31 PM, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2:35 pm, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Point to note:
>>
>> list,set = set,list  # Request a death sentence from the next maintainer
>>
>> is perfectly legal code. Now, what does your "args=" line do?
>>
>> ChrisA
>
> Why are you directing this at my mocking of the OPs idea when the same
> issue is present in his proposal?

Because it was after reading your post that I saw reason to write
that, and it tied in better with your post than any other. No other
reason.

ChrisA