[Python-Dev] Tuple/list assignment question
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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