Archetype language

[spir]

On 03/20/2011 10:11 PM, bearophile wrote:
>> Do you use tuple return values often, e.g. in Python?
> Not in every line of code, but they are quite useful.
> Tuples are useful for other purposes too, like:
>
> for a,b in zip((1, 2, 3), "abc"):
>
> Here a,b is a 2-tuple that Python automatically unpack from the result of the zip, that in Python2 is a list (array) of 2-tuples.

Typical example, I guess:

     for line in File("contacts.dat"):
         (name,phone,email) = line.split(';')
	# process name,phone,email

Denis
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