On Nov 27, 11:18 pm, boblatest <boblat...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > (sorry for posting from Google. I currently don't have access to my > normal nntp account.) > > Here's my question: Given a list of onknown length, I'd like to be > able to do the following: > > (a, b, c, d, e, f) = list > > If the list has fewer items than the tuple, I'd like the remaining > tuple elements to be set to "None". If the list is longer, I'd like > the excess elements to be ignored.
WRONG -- sweeping excess input under the carpet is a nasssssty perlish trick. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list