MRAB wrote:
Brian Quinlan wrote:
kj wrote:
In <slrnh37t2p.63e.n...@irishsea.home.craig-wood.com> Nick Craig-Wood
<n...@craig-wood.com> writes:
However I can't think of the last time I wanted to do this - array
elements having individual purposes are usually a sign that you should
be using a different data structure.
In the case I was working with, was a stand-in for the value returned
by some_match.groups(). The match comes from a standard regexp
defined elsewhere and that captures more groups than I need. (This
regexp is applied to every line of a log file.)
kj
The common idiom for this sort of thing is:
_, _, _, val1, _, _, _, val2, ..., val3 = some_match.groups()
Alternatively:
val1, val2, val3 = some_match.group(4, 8, something)
Actually, now that I think about it, naming the groups seems like it
would make this code a lot less brittle.
Cheers,
Brian
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