George Sakkis wrote:
> On May 29, 11:33 pm, Matimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Your attemtp:
>>
>>[code]
>>first, rest = arglist[0], arglist[1:]
>>[/code]
>>
>>Is the most obvious and probably the most accepted way to do what you
>>are looking for. As for adding the fucntionality you first suggested,
>>it isn't likely to be implemented. The first step would be to write a
>>PEP though.
>
>
> The time machine did it again: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3132/.
Thanks! Now I just need to wait for Py3K and all of my problems will be
solved. ;-)
Actually, I'm surprised that the PEP does as much as it does. If tuples
are implemented as S-expressions, then something like this:
car, *cdr = tuple
while leaving cdr a tuple would be trivial to implement. Of course, I'm
an old-school LISPer, so what I consider surprising behavior doesn't
always surprise anyone else, and vice versa.
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