destructuring tuple and list

[Hans Nowak]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

> I've also thought about that. s/t like real pattern matching might be cool,
> but is probably too much of a paradigm shift.   
> 
> What I do is this:
> 
> l = (5,6,3,4)
> x,y,tail = l[0:2], l[:2]

This does not seem to work, though:

 >>> l = (5, 6, 3, 4)
 >>> x, y, tail = l[0:2], l[:2]
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: unpack tuple of wrong size

What does work is:

 >>> (x, y), tail = l[0:2], l[2:]
 >>> print x, y, tail
5 6 (3, 4)
 >>>

Or maybe:

 >>> x, y, tail = l[0], l[1], l[2:]

Cheers,

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