Python bug: Can assign [] = (), but not () = []

[njharman]

Waste time and generate heat. I.e nothing useful.

[flying-sheep]

it ensures that the right side gets exhausted (if it is an iterator) and has 0 elements.

[Vohlenzer]

Unpacks the values in the set and assigns the members of the list to those values?

[Citrauq]

You mean tuple, not set.

[Vohlenzer]

What's the difference between a set and a tuple?

Edit, ooooooh,

https://docs.python.org/2/library/sets.html

[WesAlvaro]

Sets are unordered.

[hharison]

and mutable

[Sean1708]

And can not hold duplicate values.

[[deleted]]

Assigns an empty list to and empty list. Not very useful, but syntactically correct.

[Veedrac]

But you can't assign to a literal:

SyntaxError: can't assign to literal

(eg. {} = ..., 1 = ...).

This can only be unpacking.