On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 22:31, <henr...@princeton.edu> wrote: > Furthermore, you currently can't tell the difference between `x[(a, b)]` and > `x[a, b]`; with the new function, libraries could differentiate, and maybe > eventually make them behave reasonably (you can always use x[*c] if you > already have a tuple, just like for a function, and it's one of the rare / > only places where list vs. tuple matters in Python).
You still would not be able to. The semantics of that operation are unchanged (for backward compatibility) -- Kind regards, Stefano Borini _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/XDWQSKYIOHUVRKMMDRDIST757LLVFFXD/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/