default value in a list

[Larry Bates]

What do you want put into the "missing" variables?
I'll assume None.  Something like following
works:

values=line.split(':')
try: a=values.pop(0)
except IndexError: a=None
try: b=values.pop(0)
except IndexError: b=None
try: c=values.pop(0)
except IndexError: c=None


Larry Bates



TB wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an elegant way to assign to a list from a list of unknown
> size?  For example, how could you do something like:
> 
> 
>>>> a, b, c = (line.split(':'))
> 
> if line could have less than three fields?
> 
> Thanks,
> TB
>