Pythonification of the asterisk-based collection packing/unpacking syntax

Eelco hoogendoorn.eelco at gmail.com
Sat Dec 24 09:41:46 EST 2011


On Dec 20, 4:35 am, alex23 <wuwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eelco <hoogendoorn.ee... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Having two seperate symbols seperated by whitespace, as in @list args
> > strikes me as a terrible break of normal python lexical rules.
>
> You mean like 'is not'? And the upcoming 'yield from'?

Im not sure why, but this feels like something entirely different to
me.

I suppose because these are compositions of keywords. Can you give an
example of a whitespaced composition of identifiers being a valid
construct anywhere else in Python?



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