Randy Bush wrote:
> maybe it's that i am actually doing
>
> l = []
> a, l = string.split('|')
How about
>>> s='1|2|3|4'
>>> l=s.split('|')
>>> a, l = l[0], l[1:]
>>> a
'1'
>>> l
['2', '3', '4']
?
Kent
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