I want to do something like below:
1. first, second, third, *rest = foo
Python 3.0 has exactly this feature. No current Python 2.x version has it.
I asked something similar[1] on c.l.p a while back and Diez
Roggisch gave this nice workaround/hack[2]
It's a bit ugly in the implementation (sniffing the stack), but
elegant in the use, doing exactly what I needed.
It doesn't accommodate the "rest" portion that you reference, but
allows for arbitrary unpacking into a fixed-length tuple.
-tkc
[1]
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-May/381386.html
[2]
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-May/381399.html
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