Nick Coghlan wrote:
> So my vote would actually go for deprecating the use of square brackets to
> surround an assignment target list - it makes it look like an actual list
> object should be involved somewhere, but there isn't one.
I've found myself using square brackets a few times for more
complicated unpacking, e.g.:
try:
x, y = args
except ValueError:
[x], y = args, None
where I thought that
(x,), y = args, None
would have been more confusing. OTOH, I usually end up rewriting this to
x, = args
y = None
because even the bracketed form is a bit confusing. So I wouldn't
really be upset if the brackets went away.
STeVe
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--- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy
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