Thomas Ploch wrote: <snip> > > I had a little bit of fun while writing this: > > itemList = (a,b,c1,c2,c3,d1,d2,d3,d4,d5) and > itemList2 = (a1,a2,a3,b,c,d1,d2,d3,d4,d5) the next time. >
Huh? What's a,b,....d5? > def getSlices(aCount, bCount, cCount, dCount, items): > a,b,c,d = (items[0:aCount], > items[aCount:aCount+bCount], > items[aCount+bCount:aCount+bCount+cCount], > item[aCount+bCount+cCount:aCount+bCount+cCount+dCount]) You meant "items" here, right? > return list(a),list(b),list(c),list(d) > > >>>a,b,c,d = getSlices(1,1,3,5,itemList) > >>>print a,b,c,d > ['a'] ['b'] ['c1', 'c2', 'c3'] ['d1', 'd2', 'd3', 'd4', 'd5'] > > >>>a,b,c,d = getSlices(3,1,1,0,itemList2) > >>>print a,b,c,d > ['a1', 'a2', 'a3'] ['b'] ['c'] [] > > %-) > > Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list