I am trying to unpack set of phone numbers from a sequence, python shell in turn throws an invalid syntax error. I am using python 2.7.1. Here is the snippet

>>> record = ('Dave', 'dave@example.com', '773-555-1212', '847-555-1212')
>>> name, email, *phone-numbers = record
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Please explain. Is there any other way of doing the same?

python python-2.x iterable-unpacking
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