Martti Kühne wrote:
You brush over the fact that *t is not limited to a replacement by a comma-separated sequence of items from t, but *t is actually a replacement by that comma-separated sequence of items from t INTO an external context.
Indeed. In situations where there isn't any context for the interpretation of *, it's not allowed. For example: >>> x = *(1, 2, 3) File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can't use starred expression here But >>> x = 1, *(2, 3) >>> x (1, 2, 3) The * is allowed there because it's already in a context where a comma-separated list has meaning. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
