If I have a list of say, 10 elements and I need to slice it into
irregular size list, I would have to create a bunch of temporary
variables and then regroup them afterwords, like:
# Just for illustration. Alist can be any existing 10 element list
a_list=("",)*10
(a,b,c1,c2,c3,d1,d2,d3,d4,d5)=a_list
alist=(a,)
blist=(b,)
clist=(c1,c2,c3)
dlist=(d2,d3,d4,d5)
That obviously work but do I *really* have to do that?
BTW: I know you can do:
alist=a_list[0]
blist=a_list[1]
clist=a_list[2:5]
dlist=a_list[5:]
but I don't see that it's any better.
Can I say something to the effect of:
(a,b,c[0:2],d[0:5])=a_list # Obviously this won't work
??
I am asking this because I have a section of code that contains *lots*
of things like this. It makes the code very unreadable.
Thanks,
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