"Jabin Jezreel" <jabinjezreel at gmail.com> wrote > What is the idiomatic way to write the right side of > (a, b) = (l[0:2], l[2:]) > ? > (not worried about the parens, just the splitting of the sequence) I think you have it. I'm not aware of any better way. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/