Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
>>>Why not put these together and put it in itertools, since the requirement
>>>seems
>>>to crop up every other week?
>>>
>>> >>> line = "A:B:C".split(":")
>>> ...
>>> >>> def ipad(N,iterable, default = None):
>>> ... return it.islice(it.chain(iterable, it.repeat(default)), N)
>>> ...
>>> >>> a,b,c,d = ipad(4,line)
>>> >>> a,b,c,d
>>>('A', 'B', 'C', None)
>>
>>
>> Good idea!
>>
>> (+1 if this was posted on python-dev!)
>
> Please, please Google the python-dev archives before doing so ;)
I have no intent of doing so, I would leave that to more experienced
people...
Reinhold ;)
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