Hello all, (sorry for posting from Google. I currently don't have access to my normal nntp account.)
Here's my question: Given a list of onknown length, I'd like to be able to do the following: (a, b, c, d, e, f) = list If the list has fewer items than the tuple, I'd like the remaining tuple elements to be set to "None". If the list is longer, I'd like the excess elements to be ignored. The code snippet below does what I want, I was just wondering if there was an interesting "Pythonic" way of expressing the same thing. Thanks, robert def iter_inf(li, n): for i in range(n): if i < len(li): r = li[i] else: r = None i += 1 yield r li = ['a', 'b', 'c'] (a, b, c, d, e) = iter_inf(li, 5) print a, b, c, d, e -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list