Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anyway to tell python I don't care about a value ? > > Say I want today's year and day, I'd like to do something like: > > import time > y, None, d, None, None, None, None = time.localtime() > > I know you can't assign anything to None, but I'm sure you get what I > mean, a special keyword that means I don't care about this value. In > this particular case, there's got to be a better way than: > > d = time.local() > y = d[0] > d = d[1] >
I use Paul Rubin's solution (which is frown upon by many:), but it's true it would be nice for tuples to have something like an extract() method: y, d = time.localtime.extract(0, 2) Where mytuple.extract(i1, i2, i3...) would mean: tuple(mytuple[i] for i in (i1, i2, i3...)) Or perhaps allow indexing by tuples: mytuple[i1, i2, i3...] -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list