On 2012-12-13 19:37, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
Hi folks, I swear I used to know this but can't find it anywhere:What's the standard idiom for unpacking the first few items of an iterable whose total length is unknown? Something like a, b, c, _ = myiterable where _ could eat up a variable number of items, in case I'm only interested in the first 3 items?
You could do this: from itertools import islice a, b, c = islice(myiterable, 3) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
