Re: [a,b,c,d] = 1,2,3,4

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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant
<jeanmichel@sequans.com> wrote:
> To add to Joel's answer, the right side can be *any* sequence, and is not restricted to lists or tuples.
>
> a, b, c = (x for x in range(3)) # a generator for instance

FWIW, a generator is not a sequence; this works because the right side
can be any *iterable*, even more general than sequences.

ChrisA

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Re: [a,b,c,d] = 1,2,3,4 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 23:04 +1000

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