John Henry schrieb: > If I have a list of say, 10 elements and I need to slice it into > irregular size list, I would have to create a bunch of temporary > variables and then regroup them afterwords, like: > > # Just for illustration. Alist can be any existing 10 element list > a_list=("",)*10 > (a,b,c1,c2,c3,d1,d2,d3,d4,d5)=a_list > alist=(a,) > blist=(b,) > clist=(c1,c2,c3) > dlist=(d2,d3,d4,d5) > > That obviously work but do I *really* have to do that? > > BTW: I know you can do: > alist=a_list[0] > blist=a_list[1] > clist=a_list[2:5] > dlist=a_list[5:] > > but I don't see that it's any better. > > Can I say something to the effect of: > > (a,b,c[0:2],d[0:5])=a_list # Obviously this won't work > > ?? > > I am asking this because I have a section of code that contains *lots* > of things like this. It makes the code very unreadable. > > Thanks, >
Nothing in your code actually __is__ a list. they are all tuples... A list is: aList = [a,b,c1,c2,c3,d1,d2,d3,d4,d5] Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list