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Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets?

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Date Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:52:29 -0700
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gc wrote:
> Target lists using comma separation are great, but they don't work
> very well for this task. What I want is something like
> 
> a,b,c,d,e = *dict()

This isn't going to happen.  From all the discussion so far I think your 
best solution is a simple helper function (not tested):

def repeat(count_, object_, *args, **kwargs):
     result = []
     for _ in range(count_):
         result.append(object_(*args, **kwargs))
     return result

a, b, c, d, e = repeat(5, dict)

These are each new objects, so depending on the function (like the 
random.rand_int example) the values may not be the same.

Oh, and I put the trailing _ on count and object to minimize possible 
conflicts with keyword arguments.

~Ethan~

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Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? gc <gc1223@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 18:45 -0700
  Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-03 03:09 +0100
  Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-03 18:25 +1000
    Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-08-03 06:15 -0500
    Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-08-03 06:25 -0500
      Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? gc <gc1223@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 12:50 -0700
  Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-08-03 20:29 +1200
  Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? "Martin P. Hellwig" <martin.hellwig@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 21:39 +0100
    Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? gc <gc1223@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 17:14 -0700
      Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-08-17 03:11 +0100
      Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 08:13 +0100
        Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? gc <gc1223@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 02:26 -0700
          Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 10:45 +0100
            Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? gc <gc1223@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 03:33 -0700
          Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-08-17 12:12 -0400
          Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-08-17 17:55 +0100
          Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 18:25 +0100
          Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-08-17 19:13 +0000
      Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Zero Piraeus <schesis@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 16:07 -0400
  Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-08-17 12:52 -0700
  Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? John Pinner <funthyme@gmail.com> - 2011-08-18 02:26 -0700
  Re: Syntactic sugar for assignment statements: one value to multiple targets? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-08-18 09:13 -0400

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