list unpack trick?

[Nick Coghlan]

aurora wrote:
> I am think more in the line of string.ljust(). So if we have a  
> list.ljust(length, filler), we can do something like
> 
>   name, value = s.split('=',1).ljust(2,'')

Eh?

Py> s.split('=',1).ljust(2,'')
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'ljust'

Cheers,
Nick.

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