Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 12:21 PM Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > > I have a list created by:- > > > > fld = shlex.split(ln) > > > > It may contain 3, 4 or 5 entries according to data read into ln. > > What's the neatest way of setting the fourth and fifth entries to an > > empty string if they don't (yet) exist? Using 'if len(fld) < 4:' feels > > clumsy somehow. > > shlex.split(ln) + ["", ""] > Now that *is* neat, I will probably do this.
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