On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Sorry if this is too simple but I couldn't find.
>
> I vaguely remember there is a means to assign a variable length tuple
> and catch the 'rest'  like
>
> S="a,b,c,d"
>
> (A,B,<list of remaining items>) = S.split(',')

In Python 3.0 (IIRC):

A, B, *rest = S.split(',')

Cheers,
Chris

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