items = [1, 2, 3] a, *b = items print a, b
Standard input is empty
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/py_compile.py", line 117, in compile raise py_exc py_compile.PyCompileError: SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('prog.py', 2, 4, 'a, *b = items\n'))
Standard output is empty