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Author martin.panter
Recipients Cesar.Kawakami, Devin Jeanpierre, Kyle.Buzsaki, Rahul Gupta, amaury.forgeotdarc, berker.peksag, eryksun, ezio.melotti, ionelmc, mark.dickinson, martin.panter, ncoghlan, r.david.murray, rhettinger
Date 2015-05-27.12:53:23
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I prefer to unpack into square brackets in general because it is a mnemonic for the star argument being a list:

>>> (a, *b) = range(3)
>>> a
0
>>> b  # A list, even though it was unpacked using tuple-like syntax
[1, 2]
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2015-05-27 12:53:23martin.pantersetrecipients: + martin.panter, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, Devin Jeanpierre, ezio.melotti, ionelmc, r.david.murray, berker.peksag, eryksun, Cesar.Kawakami, Kyle.Buzsaki, Rahul Gupta
2015-05-27 12:53:23martin.pantersetmessageid: <1432731203.28.5.52233799311e-05.issue23275@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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