On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 at 05:32, Mike Miller <python-id...@mgmiller.net> wrote: > > My first thought was next(), which I use occasionally: > > >>> items = (i for i in range(9)) > >>> items > <generator object <genexpr> at 0x7f33251766d0> > > >>> first, second = next(items), next(items) # 👀 > > >>> first, second > (0, 1) > > >>> tuple(items) > (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) > > > No imports needed. Is this deficient for the use case in some way? >
It's fine for exactly two elements, where you'll never need to adjust the code to want three, and where you know already that this is an iterator (not some other iterable). If you had five elements to unpack, it would be quite clunky, and even more so if you wanted to change the precise number of elements unpacked, as you'd have to match the number of next calls. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/KAHHSM27WV5X3B2HMENPMY6U626MLLIK/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
