[issue5018] Overly general claim about sequence unpacking in tutorial

2009-03-31 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl added the comment: I've just removed the paragraph about the asymmetry in r70915. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue5018] Overly general claim about sequence unpacking in tutorial

2009-01-20 Thread Mitchell Model
Mitchell Model added the comment: I've read those paragraphs many times. Oddly enough when you asked me for a rewording and I went back and read them again I found a very different interpretation than all the other times. I've always thought of unpacking as being about the variables on the

[issue5018] Overly general claim about sequence unpacking in tutorial

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Suggested rewording? -- nosy: +rhettinger ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing lis

[issue5018] Overly general claim about sequence unpacking in tutorial

2009-01-20 Thread Mitchell Model
New submission from Mitchell Model : The datastructures section of the tutorial states with respect to "sequence unpacking" that "there is a small bit of asymmetry here: packing multiple values always creates a tuple, and unpacking works for any sequence". This is too general, as shown by the