Stefan Niemann wrote: > Hi, > > sorry that I'm relatively new to Python. But the syntax and semantics of > Python already fascinate me, because I'm familiar with functional languages > like Haskell. > > Is there a pattern matching construct in Python like (head : tail), meaning > 'head' matches the first element of a list and 'tail' matches the rest? I > could not find this in the Python documentation. > > Regards, > Stefan > > >
L = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five'] print L[0] # This would be 'head' print L[1:] # This would be 'tail' Caution : L[0] and L[1:] are COPIES of the head and tail of the list. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
