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* (and **?) in assignments

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Brian Quinlan <brian@sweetapp.com> writes:

> Need is a bit too strong. But which do you like better:
> 
> year, month, day = time.localtime()[0:3]
> 
> or 
> 
> year, month, day, *dummy = time.localtime()

lttime = time.localtime()
year = ltime.tm_year
month = ltime.tm_mon
day = ltime.tm_mday

Readability counts.

Actually, you may just avoid the assignments altogether, and just use
the named fields.

Regards,
Martin

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