On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:11:53 -0400, bearophile 
<bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> This syntax you have explained doesn't do what you think it does:
> a, b, c, _ = ('tuple', 'of', 'three')
That was a typo, I meant to write:
a, b, _ = ('tuple', 'of', 'three')