Bart <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 30/09/2018 11:14, Chris Green wrote: > > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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) + ["", ""] > >> > > Now that *is* neat, I will probably do this. > > Won't it give you 7 entries, when shlex.split(ln) returns 5? > > Or doesn't that matter? (In which case that's something not mentioned in > the specification.)
No, it doesn't matter, I just need at least 5. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list