Suppose i have a big list and i want to take tke the first one and rest of the list like car/cdr in lisp. is there any easy way to do this in python?
Only way i know is a = range(10) x, y = a[0], a[1:] In perl, it is possible to do multiple assignment like this.... @a = (1, 2, 3); ($x, @y) = @a; I find this is a good feature and missing in python. Why can't python support something like this: x, *y = a * operator is used in the usual sence here. This is not really a new concept to python, infact when calling a function which takes variable arguments, it is used in a similar way. for example: def f(x, *y): print x, y f(1, 2, 3) the argument passing here is very similar to the multiple assignment x, *y = (1, 2, 3) any comments? -anand -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list