On 12/04/12 15:36, 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 _
Just to complete the picture, that's a Py3k thing. And it only works with finite iterables (such as lists). In 2.x, you have to use Terry Reedy's slicing suggestion. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
