[SOLVED] Python Extended Iterable Unpacking

[Lord Hisu]

I just answered a question that gave me more questions about how Ren'Py treats Python code.

The problem is really simple... we have a string, and want to unpack all the words in it using split.
Something like this:

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b = renpy.input("Type a string")
c, d = b.split(" ")

Now, if our string has one space, like "my string" everything should be fine. But lets say my string is "this is my string", and I want to get the first and last words in that string. In pure Python, this would do the job:

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b = renpy.input("Type a string")
c, *trash, d = b.split(" ")

This (*var) syntax tells the interpreter that it should pick the first variable returned, put it in c, then pick the last one, put it in d, and all the rest goes to the trash variable.

But when I do the same thing in Ren'Py using a python block, or even a $ sentence, it raises an error. "Parsing the script failed. Invalid syntax".
I would like to know if Ren'Py parses Python code somehow before the Python interpreter itself, or if it passes everything in the python block to the interpreter, and then handle potential errors.
I believe it is the first option, since this feature exists since Python 3.0, and if that's the case, I would like to know if it's possible to include that in the next update.

Sorry for all the trouble.

[xavimat]

Ren'Py doesn't use python 3 yet.

[Lord Hisu]

Oooh, and I thought I was using Python 3 all along!
The print function tricked me, but I guess it's a simple __future__ import, right?

Thanks, xavimat.