There is a new film starring the best actors ever. I’ll see it as soon as it is out.
When a starred name is used, the number of items in the target on the left need not match the length of the subject sequence. In fact, the starred name can appear anywhere in the target. — (Mark Lutz, Learning Python , (5ème édition), O'Reilly, 2013, lêmbëtï 355)
