[Python-ideas] Generator unpacking

[Greg Ewing]

Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2016, at 00:50, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>Yeah... uhh... "iter(x)" is a less cute way of asserting that it's iterable :D
> 
> With the side benefit of not also asserting that it's empty, and not possibly consuming elements. :)

Er, yeah, there is that. :-)

But with the proposed syntax it could be

    [...] = something

assuming the compiler doesn't decide to optimize out
the iter() in that case.

-- 
Greg