On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:47 PM, The Night Tripper <jkn...@nicorp.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi there
> I'm being very dumb ... how can I simplify this fragment?
>
>
> if arglist:
> arglist.pop(0)
> if arglist:
> self.myparm1 = arglist.pop(0)
> if arglist:
> self.myparm2 = arglist.pop(0)
> if arglist:
> self.myparm3 = arglist.pop(0)
> if arglist:
> self.parm4 = arglist.pop(0)
Perhaps this would work for you:
if arglist:
defaults = [self.parm1, self.parm2, self.parm3, self.parm4]
arglist = arglist[1:] + defaults[len(arglist)-1:]
self.parm1, self.parm2, self.parm3, self.parm4 = arglist[:4]
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