lallous wrote:
> I am still learning Python, and have a question, perhaps I can shorten
> the code:
>
> L = (
> (1, 2, 3),
> (4,),
> (5,),
> (6, 7)
> )
>
> for x in L:
> print x
>
> What I want, is to write the for loop, something like this:
>
> for (first_element, the_rest) in L:
> print first_element
> for x in the_rest:
> # now access the rest of the elements
>
> I know I can :
> for x in L:
> first = x[0]
> rest = x[1:]
> ....
> Probably that is not possible, but just asking.
In Python 3 you can write
>>> for first, *rest in L:
... print("first:", first, "rest:", rest)
...
first: 1 rest: [2, 3]
first: 4 rest: []
first: 5 rest: []
first: 6 rest: [7]
Peter
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