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On 30 January 2014 20:38, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Why is tuple unpacking limited to the last argument? Is it just for
> the parallel with the function definition, where anything following it
> is keyword-only?

You're not the first person to ask that:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0448/

If you're able and willing to implement it, I believe the support is
there. The primary reason I know of for its non-inclusion was that it
was first proposed (with code) during a feature freeze.