Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote:
Why not put these together and put it in itertools, since the requirement seems
to crop up every other week?
>>> line = "A:B:C".split(":")
...
>>> def ipad(N,iterable, default = None):
... return it.islice(it.chain(iterable, it.repeat(default)), N)
...
>>> a,b,c,d = ipad(4,line)
>>> a,b,c,d
('A', 'B', 'C', None)
Good idea!
(+1 if this was posted on python-dev!)
Please, please Google the python-dev archives before doing so ;)
Cheers,
Nick.
I seem to recall 'tuple unpacking' as the appropriate phrase. . .
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