Is there any nice way to unpack a list of unknown size??

[Fredrik Lundh]

srinivasan srinivas wrote:

> I want to do something like below:
> 
> 1. first, second, third, *rest = foo
> 
>  2. for (a,b,c,*rest) in list_of_lists:

update to Python 3.0 (as others have pointed out), or just do

     first, second, third = foo[:3]
     rest = foo[3:]

     for item in list_of_lists:
         a, b, c = item[:3]
         rest = item[3:]
         ...

and move on to more interesting parts of your program.

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