converting from perl: variable sized unpack

[Skip Montanaro]

>>>>> "RS" == Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

    RS> What's the best way to translate this perl snippet into python:

    RS> ($f1, $f2, $f3, $f4, $f5, $f6) = split ('\s+', $line);

    BAW> Python doesn't work this way, but I've been thinking about writing
    BAW> a PEP to make sequence unpacking less strict.

What about writing a simple class to do it?  Instead of raising an exception
in __getitem__ it would just return "" or None.

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