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

Dave Cole djc at object-craft.com.au
Tue Aug 3 08:44:53 CEST 2004


Is there any reason why something like this would not be a good idea?

a_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] a, b, *c = a_list

You could then do things like this:

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

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