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

[Gary Herron]

srinivasan srinivas wrote:
> I want to do something like below:
>
> 1. first, second, third, *rest = foo
>   

Python 3.0 has exactly this feature.  No current Python 2.x version has it.

Gary Herron

>  2. for (a,b,c,*rest) in list_of_lists:
>
> Please suggest.
>
> Thanks,
> Srini
>
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