Paul McGuire wrote:
> Forgot one:
>
> _,_,a,_,b,_,_,_ = y
>
> There actually is some merit to this form. If the structure of y changes
> sometime in the future (specifically if a field is added or removed), this
> statement will fail noisily, calling your attention to this change. But if
> a new field is added, say at the front of the list, the previous methods
> will all silently succeed, but now giving you the values formerly known as
> y[1] and y[3].
if this is likely to happen, an straightforward assert is a lot easier to parse
than
a one-two-a-three-oops-one-two-a-four-five-etc number of underscores:
assert len(y) == 8
a = y[2]
b = y[4]
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