beginner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know the * operator. However, a 'partial unpack' does not seem to work.
A few other posters have mentioned ways around this, but you might ask yourself what coding situation makes you want to do this stuff in the first place. I won't say there's never a reason for it, but a lot of times, a list containing a mixture of scalars and lists/tuples is a sign that your underlying data representation is contorted. Things are logically single values or they are logically lists of values, and that mixed representation is often a sign that the item logically should be a list, and you're hairing up the program with special treatment of the case where the list has exactly one element. I.e. instead of [[1,2,], 3, [5,6,]] maybe you really want [[1,2,], [3,], [5,6]] without the special treatment and flattening. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
