srinivasan srinivas wrote:
I want to do something like below:1. first, second, third, *rest = foo 2. for (a,b,c,*rest) in list_of_lists:
update to Python 3.0 (as others have pointed out), or just do first, second, third = foo[:3] rest = foo[3:] for item in list_of_lists: a, b, c = item[:3] rest = item[3:] ... and move on to more interesting parts of your program. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list