>>Hi folks, I swear I used to know this but can't find it anywhere: >> >>What's the standard idiom for unpacking the first few items of an >>iterable whose total length is unknown? >> >>Something like >> >>a, b, c, _ = myiterable >> >>where _ could eat up a variable number of items, in case I'm only >>interested in the first 3 items? > > If you're using python3, you can simply do: > > a, b, c, *rest = myiterable
Thanks, sounds great, how about python2? -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list