On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The problem is that it depends on internal whitespace to >> distinguish it from augmented assignment; >> > > Ah, didn't spot that. I guess the ellipsis is the next best > thing then. > > An alternative would be to require parens: > > (x, y, *) = z > But that would have the same issue. Is this problem really important enough that it requires dedicated syntax? Isn't the itertools-based solution good enough? (Or failing that, couldn't we add something to itertools to make it more readable rather than going straight to new syntax?) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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