On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, I swear I used to know this but can't find it anywhere. > Say I have a list x = [ 1,2,3,4,5 ] and only care about the first two items. > I'd like to assign the first two items to two variables, something like, > > a, b, _ = x > > but the above will not work, of course, but what is the common idiom > for this that does?
Try this: a, b, *_ = x Assigns 1 to a, 2 to b, and [3,4,5] to _ ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
