referencing disjoint array indexes

[Gerhard Häring]

In article <DnNz9.11696$cP3.22276 at news.iol.ie>, Padraig Brady wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way you can do something like
> 
> size, mtime = os.stat()[8,6]

If there isn't any better way, you can easily implement a little helper function yourself:

>>> def seqfromidxs(seq, *idxs):
...   lst = []
...   for idx in idxs:
...     lst.append(seq[idx])
...   return lst
...
>>> # now let's try it out:
>>> aseq = "abcdefg"
>>> c1, c2 = seqfromidxs(aseq, 3, 5)
>>> c1, c2
('d', 'f')

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