[Python-Dev] Tuple/list assignment question (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Aug 4 07:03:31 CEST 2004


That is not really the use case for the feature. What I would really like is a nice way to avoid doing this:

>>> lol = [[1, 2], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]] >>> for tmp in lol: ... a, b = tmp[:2] ... c = tmp[2:]

Maybe the case of not caring about the rest could be addressed explicitly, e.g.

a, b, c, ... = stuff

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