What do you want put into the "missing" variables? I'll assume None. Something like following works:
values=line.split(':')
try: a=values.pop(0)
except IndexError: a=None
try: b=values.pop(0)
except IndexError: b=None
try: c=values.pop(0)
except IndexError: c=None
Larry Bates
TB wrote:
Hi,
Is there an elegant way to assign to a list from a list of unknown size? For example, how could you do something like:
a, b, c = (line.split(':'))
if line could have less than three fields?
Thanks, TB
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