<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:47 PM, The Night Tripper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkn+gg@nicorp.co.uk" target="_blank">jkn+gg@nicorp.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi there<br>
    I'm being very dumb ... how can I simplify this fragment?<br></blockquote><div>i = 0<br></div><div>while arglist:<br></div><div>    self.myparm[i] = arglist.pop(0)<br></div><div>    i += 1<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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        if arglist:<br>
            arglist.pop(0)<br>
            if arglist:<br>
                self.myparm1 = arglist.pop(0)<br>
                if arglist:<br>
                    self.myparm2 = arglist.pop(0)<br>
                    if arglist:<br>
                        self.myparm3 = arglist.pop(0)<br>
                        if arglist:<br>
                            self.parm4 = arglist.pop(0)<br>
        # ...<br>
<br>
    Thanks<br>
    J^n<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Joel Goldstick<br></div><a href="http://joelgoldstick.com" target="_blank">http://joelgoldstick.com</a><br></div>
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