[a,b,c,d] = 1,2,3,4

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Angelico" <rosuav at gmail.com>
> Cc: python-list at python.org
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2015 3:04:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [a,b,c,d] = 1,2,3,4
> 
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant
> <jeanmichel at sequans.com> wrote:
> > To add to Joel's answer, the right side can be *any* sequence, and
> > is not restricted to lists or tuples.
> >
> > a, b, c = (x for x in range(3)) # a generator for instance
> 
> FWIW, a generator is not a sequence; this works because the right
> side
> can be any *iterable*, even more general than sequences.
> 
> ChrisA

Sorry about that, I've been mislead by the tutorial which uses sequence where it should have used iterable, so I though they where the same but they're not.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html
"There are seven sequence types: strings, Unicode strings, lists, tuples, bytearrays, buffers, and xrange objects."

I stand corrected.

JM


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