Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: []=[] Date: 23 Sep 2023 07:41:53 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 16 Expires: 1 Sep 2024 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de boMDjmlHmGFp65WhI3iPNwWaTKP6HCSr2tYQW7ZRK6IJdf Cancel-Lock: sha1:jggtvc21WPUOP2oQw3ucNYSH+ac= sha256:39f6KhJMyytxe0LsJDovDQG6+UXQzt3r4+lv0C2B5RQ= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2023 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Accept-Language: de-DE-1901, en-US, it, fr-FR Bytes: 1866 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes: >[]=[] I was watching a video of a David Beazley talk "Python Concurrency From the Ground Up" , where he wrote can_recv, can_send, [] = select(recv_wait, send_wait, []) . Later, he clarified that he actually wanted to write can_recv, can_send, _ = select(recv_wait, send_wait, []) and that he was surprised how the "[]" gave no error. ("I wonder why that works.")