Re: Misleading error message of the day

In article <mailman.3466.1323425036.27778.python-list@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ethan Furman wrote:
Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
You have to opportunity to not use unpacking anymore :o) There is a
recent thread were the dark side of unpacking was exposed. Unpacking
is a cool feautre for very small applications but should be avoided
whenever possible otherwise.

Which thread was that?


~Ethan~
"A tuple in order to pass returned values ?" was the thread.

JM

To save everybody the effort of finding it, I think he's talking about
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.python/2vcwYfIQSOM/discussion
.

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