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Let's talk about extended iterable unpacking.

Tuple unpacking describes the size of the iterable you're unpacking

Tuple unpacking is great when you know the size of the iterable you're unpacking.

For example, here we're unpacking a three-item tuple (called coordinates) into three variables:

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