Yes, that is the same with or without parentheses. You're creating a tuple on the right-hand side of the equal sign, and using tuple unpacking on the left-hand

Yes, that is the same with or without parentheses. You're creating a tuple on the right-hand side of the equal sign, and using tuple unpacking on the left-hand side to assign the members of that tuple to variables. To make it a bit more clear, you can add parentheses on the left to match the ones on the right: (a, b, c) = (1, 2, 3)