"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dnia 16-03-2008, N o godzinie 18:20 -0400, Terry Reedy pisze: | | > The rule I suggested is 'execute the statement the same *as if* the | > iterable items had been written in the code as a comma sequence'. | | One reason I don't like this rule is that it works on the level of the | token sequence
The tokenization of Python code is part of the language spec | rather than the AST. Whereas no particular AST is, that I know of. | It's too low-level, relying on | peculiarities of the syntax rather than the meaning (does a=*b really | convert b to a tuple only because the tuple syntax uses lone commas?). | And it doesn't directly work for 0 or 1 items, in which case the | behavior must be extrapolated from the behavior for more items. Can you give another rule that you prefer and that I can comprehend and that I can explain to Python newcomers? The OP only gave a few examples of * usage and (initially) no rule that I saw. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
