Python: Splat/unpack operator * in python cannot be used in an expression?

て烟熏妆下的殇ゞ 提交于 2019-12-28 04:22:08

问题


Does anybody know the reasoning as to why the unary (*) operator cannot be used in an expression involving iterators/lists/tuples?

Why is it only limited to function unpacking? or am I wrong in thinking that?

For example:

>>> [1,2,3, *[4,5,6]]
File "<stdin>", line 1
[1,2,3, *[4,5,6]]
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Why doesn't the * operator:

[1, 2, 3, *[4, 5, 6]] give [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

whereas when the * operator is used with a function call it does expand:

f(*[4, 5, 6]) is equivalent to f(4, 5, 6)

There is a similarity between the + and the * when using lists but not when extending a list with another type.

For example:

# This works
gen = (x for x in range(10))

def hello(*args):
    print args    
hello(*gen)

# but this does not work
[] + gen
TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "generator") to list

回答1:


Unpacking in list, dict, set, and tuple literals has been added in Python 3.5, as described in PEP 448:

Python 3.5.0 (v3.5.0:374f501f4567, Sep 13 2015, 02:27:37) on Windows (64 bits).

>>> [1, 2, 3, *[4, 5, 6]]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

Here are some explanations for the rationale behind this change. Note that this does not make *[1, 2, 3] equivalent to 1, 2, 3 in all contexts. Python's syntax is not intended to work that way.




回答2:


Asterix * isn't simply unary operator, it's argument-unpacking operator for functions definitions and functions calls.

So * supposed to be used only to work with function params and not with lists, tuples etc.

NOTE: starting from python3.5, * could be used not only with functions params, @B. M's answer greatly describes that change in python.

If you need to concat lists use concatenation instead list1 + list2 to get desired result. To concatenate list and generator simply pass generator to list type object, prior concatenating with another list:

gen = (x for x in range(10))
[] + list(gen)



回答3:


This is not supported. Python 3 gives a better message (though Python 2 does not support * in the left part of an assignment, afaik):

Python 3.4.3+ (default, Oct 14 2015, 16:03:50) 
>>> [1,2,3, *[4,5,6]]
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: can use starred expression only as assignment target
>>> 

f(*[4,5,6]) is equivalent to f(4,5,6)

Function argument unfolding is a special case.



来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34766677/python-splat-unpack-operator-in-python-cannot-be-used-in-an-expression

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