[Python-Dev] Tuple/list assignment question

[Greg Ewing]

> That is not really the use case for the feature.  What I would really 
> like is a nice way to avoid doing this:
> 
>  >>> lol = [[1, 2], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]]
>  >>> for tmp in lol:
> ...     a, b = tmp[:2]
> ...     c = tmp[2:]

Maybe the case of not caring about the rest could be
addressed explicitly, e.g.

  a, b, c, ... = stuff

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