[Python-3000] PEP 3132: Extended Iterable Unpacking

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

>> > Also, what should this do? Perhaps the grammar could disallow it?
>> >
>> > *a = range(5)
>>
>> I'm not so sure about the grammar, I'm currently catching it in the AST
>> generation stage.
> 
> Hopefully it's possible to only allow this if there's at least one comma?

That's easy. But now that I have lightened the grammar changes a bit, catching
the no-comma case has gotten a bit hairy, as you'll see in the patch.

> In any case the grammar will probably end up accepting *a in lots of
> places where it isn't really allowed and you'll have to fix all of
> those.

In fact it's not too hard: only store context is allowed.

> That sounds messy; only allowing *a at the end seems a bit more
> manageable. But I'll hold off until I can shoot holes in your
> implementation. ;-)

The patch is at http://python.org/sf/1711529. Have fun :)

Georg

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