Sayth Renshaw wrote:
> Peter I really like this
>
> The complete code:
>
>>>> from collections import Counter
>>>> def find_it(seq):
> ... [result] = [k for k, v in Counter(seq).items() if v % 3 == 0]
> ... return result
> ...
>>>> test_seq = [20,1,-1,2,-2,3,3,5,5,1,2,4,20,4,-1,-2,5]
>>>> find_it(test_seq)
>
> But what may be the smallest thing in this i had no idea I could do
> [result] = blah and get a generator on the return variable that seems
> insane.
Usually this is done with tuples
>>> left, sep, right = "foo.bar".partition(".") # looks familiar?
rather than the alternative spelling
>>> [left, sep, right] = "foo.bar".partition(".")
However, a 1-tuple is just a trailing comma and easy to overlook, so i
prefer
>>> items = [42]
>>> [foo] = items
>>> foo
42
over
>>> bar, = items
>>> bar
42
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