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Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> writes:

> On a vaguely-related note, does anyone know why iterable unpacking in
> calls was removed in Python 3?

This is explained in the PEP which described its removal
<URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3113/>, especially
<URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3113/#why-they-should-go>.

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