Hi, Let's take following perl code snippet:
%myhash=( one => 1 , two => 2 , three => 3 ); ($v1,$v2,$v3) = @myhash{qw(one two two)}; # <-- line of interest print "$v1\n$v2\n$v2\n"; How do I translate the second line in a similiar compact way to python? Below is what I tried. I'm just interested in something more compact. mydict={ 'one' : 1 , 'two' : 2 , 'three' : 3 } # first idea, but still a little too much to type [v1,v2,v3] = [ mydict[k] for k in ['one','two','two']] # for long lists lazier typing,but more computational intensive # as split will probably be performed at runtime and not compilation time [v1,v2,v3] = [ mydict[k] for k in 'one two two'.split()] print "%s\n%s\n%s" %(v1,v2,v3) thanks for any ideas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list