Haskell like (c:cs) syntax

Hi, sorry that I'm relatively new to Python. But the syntax and semantics of Python already fascinate me, because I'm familiar with functional languages like Haskell. Is there a pattern matching construct in Python like (head : tail), meaning 'head' matches the first element of a list and 'tai

Re: Haskell like (c:cs) syntax

Thanks for all the good answers. In fact the `Extended Iterable Unpacking' is exactly what I was looking for. Ok, my main aspect of writing head, *tail = seq instead of head, tail = seq[0], seq[1:] is the syntactic sugar. As mentioned in the PEP this may also be faster when iterables