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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:52:12 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 09/11/2013 03:38 AM, Burak Arslan wrote:
> On 09/10/13 09:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has?
>
> My favourite gotcha is this:
>
>      elt, = elts
>
> It's a nice and compact way to do both:
>
>      assert len(elts) == 0

Perhaps you meant 'assert len(elts) == 1' ?

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~Ethan~