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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Tue Aug 3 09:02:53 CEST 2004

Dave Cole wrote:

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

>>> alist = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>> a, b, *c = alist 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: ... - Dave

As opposed to:

for a, b, c in ((x[0], x[1], x[2:]) for x in lol): print a, b, c

With generator expressions around, I don't know that this case is common enough for special casing. . .

Cheers, Nick.

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