Perl to Python again
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sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 19:04:58 EST 2016
On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 3:42:36 PM UTC-8, Fillmore wrote:
> So, now I need to split a string in a way that the first element goes
> into a string and the others in a list:
>
> while($line = <STDIN>) {
>
> my ($s, at values) = split /\t/,$line;
>
> I am trying with:
>
> for line in sys.stdin:
> s,values = line.strip().split("\t")
> print(s)
>
> but no luck:
>
> ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)
>
> What's the elegant python way to achieve this?
>
> Thanks
I'd call the split, assign it to a temp value, then pull from there, like this:
parts = line.strip().split('\t')
s = parts[0]
values = parts[1:]
There might be a one-line way to do it, but I can't think of one that doesn't rely on calling split() twice.
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