On Feb 19, 2008 6:15 PM, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > [...] > > The one that surprised me was the legality of > > > > def eggs((a, )=c): > > pass > > > > That just seems like unpacking-abuse to me. > > > Needless to say, a call that tries to *use* the default value fails > horribly, as the parameter form does require an iterable: > > >>> def eggs((a, )=2.1): > ... pass > ... > >>> eggs() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "<stdin>", line 1, in eggs > TypeError: 'float' object is not iterable > >>> eggs((2.1, )) > > >>>
And this is another reason why they will not appear in Python 3.0. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
