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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-03-31 22:40:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-03-31 22:40:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 354e4cbb1c5f8297631146dd119799eab987d42f (patch) | |
| tree | 53c3ed44aa1611f1ec4dc9e003f24aaf59bbc813 /Doc/tutorial | |
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#5018: remove confusing paragraph.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst index 0b7d7bc..ec62fad 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst @@ -401,13 +401,11 @@ The reverse operation is also possible:: >>> x, y, z = t -This is called, appropriately enough, *sequence unpacking*. Sequence unpacking -requires the list of variables on the left to have the same number of elements -as the length of the sequence. Note that multiple assignment is really just a -combination of tuple packing and sequence unpacking! - -There is a small bit of asymmetry here: packing multiple values always creates -a tuple, and unpacking works for any sequence. +This is called, appropriately enough, *sequence unpacking* and works for any +sequence on the right-hand side. Sequence unpacking requires the list of +variables on the left to have the same number of elements as the length of the +sequence. Note that multiple assignment is really just a combination of tuple +packing and sequence unpacking! .. XXX Add a bit on the difference between tuples and lists. |