accessing front of a list

[Doug Fort]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:50:35 +0000, Simon Bunker wrote:

> This is probably a fairly newbie question - and also because I am
> coming from a Perl background. I was wondering if there is a Python
> equivilant to Perls shift operator?
> 
> There seem to be many ways of getting access to the end of an array -
> pop() append() etc but I couldn't find anyting to shift off the front like
> when
> reading in argv.
> 

You can pop() from either end of a list. pop(0) gives you the head, pop()
or pop(-1) give you the end.

But when accessing a list from front to rear, I find my self using
constructs like 'for x in l:...' or the functional programming tools
map(), filter(), reduce(), etc. 

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