From 1215dc47e2eb8ad3d70e3f1aa1a36a98024019a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krzysztof Blazewicz <blazewicz.krzysztof@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:46:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] py/runtime.c: Remove optimization of '*a,=b', it caused a
 bug.

*a, = b should always make a copy of b, instead, before this patch
if b was a list it would copy only a reference to it.
---
 py/runtime.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/py/runtime.c b/py/runtime.c
index 1c25350ec4..0f8044c8da 100644
--- a/py/runtime.c
+++ b/py/runtime.c
@@ -854,11 +854,6 @@ void mp_unpack_ex(mp_obj_t seq_in, size_t num_in, mp_obj_t *items) {
         if (MP_OBJ_IS_TYPE(seq_in, &mp_type_tuple)) {
             mp_obj_tuple_get(seq_in, &seq_len, &seq_items);
         } else {
-            if (num_left == 0 && num_right == 0) {
-                // *a, = b # sets a to b if b is a list
-                items[0] = seq_in;
-                return;
-            }
             mp_obj_list_get(seq_in, &seq_len, &seq_items);
         }
         if (seq_len < num_left + num_right) {