On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> If you know the sequence has at least n items, you >> can do a, b, c = seq[:3] > > Yeah, that's probably the simplest, without all the fancy stuff :)
That only works for sequences, though. Not all iterables are sequences. The islice version proposed by MRAB is more generally applicable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
