|Alex Martelli wrote:
|> How sweet it would be to be able to unpack by coding:
|> head, *tail = alist
"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <g2h5dqi002 at sneakemail.com> wrote previously:
| command arg arg ...
| command, *args = cmdstring.split()
|and get the command as a string and a list of 0 or more argument strings.
I think I've written on this list before that I would like this
too--Ruby does this, IIRC. If anyone writes a PEP, you have my +1 in
advance.
For Greg's particular case, one approach that doesn't look too bad is:
command = args.pop(0)
# ... do stuff ...
try:
more = args.pop(0)
except IndexError:
# no more
For a really long list, it would be faster to do an 'args.reverse()' up
front, and '.pop()' off the end (Greg and Alex know all this, of course).
Yours, Lulu...
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