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Tue Mar 21 02:12:43 CET 2006 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062695.html

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> In the style guide only, I hope. The parens that are mandatory in a
> few places *are* necessary to resolve ambiguity.

That's not entirely true. My original list comprehension
implementation didn't require parens around unpacked loop
variables -- Guido added them because he thought it looked
better that way.

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