preferred?: multiple assignment

[Ofnuts]

All the more reason it shouldn't be preferred  :)

agreed

On the contrary... both of these are invalid Python

a,b,c,e,f=x,x,x,x,x
a,b,c,d,e,f=x,x,x,x

So even if a human doesn't notice the problem, Python will. While:

a,b,d,e,f=x

is correct and you'll be told about the unitialized c much later.