On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 12:21 PM Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > I have a list created by:- > > fld = shlex.split(ln) > > It may contain 3, 4 or 5 entries according to data read into ln. > What's the neatest way of setting the fourth and fifth entries to an > empty string if they don't (yet) exist? Using 'if len(fld) < 4:' feels > clumsy somehow.
shlex.split(ln) + ["", ""] ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list