Paul McGuire wrote:
>> Is there an elegant way to assign to a list from a list of unknown
>> size? For example, how could you do something like:
>>
>> >>> a, b, c = (line.split(':'))
>> if line could have less than three fields?
> I asked a very similar question a few weeks ago, and from the various
> suggestions, I came up with this:
>
> line = "AAAA:BBB"
> expand = lambda lst,default,minlen : (lst + [default]*minlen)[0:minlen]
> a,b,c = expand( line.split(":"), "", 3 )
Here is an expand() variant that is not restricted to lists but works with
arbitrary iterables:
from itertools import chain, repeat, islice
def expand(iterable, length, default=None):
return islice(chain(iterable, repeat(default)), length)
Peter
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