On 12/4/2012 4:36 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
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 _
Or a, b = x[0:2]; depending on whether you do or do not want the
remainder as a separate item.
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