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| Date | Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:50:24 -0500 |
| From | Dave Angel <d@davea.name> |
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On 12/04/2012 04:36 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Daniel Fetchinson > <fetchinson@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 _ > If you're on Python 3.x. If you're on 2.x, you need to do a slice notation like Terry points out. -- DaveA
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