Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment: FWIW, there is already a way to do this but it involves the extra step of applying map() to a bound method:
>>> my_list = ["John", "Richard", "Alice", 1, True, 2.1, "End"] >>> a, b, c = map(my_list.__getitem__, [1, 3, -1]) >>> a 'Richard' >>> b 1 >>> c 'End' ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33103> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com