[Tutor] (a, b) = (l[0:2], l[2:])

[Christian Witts]

Jabin Jezreel wrote:
> What is the idiomatic way to write the right side of
>     (a, b) = (l[0:2], l[2:])
> ?
> (not worried about the parens, just the splitting of the sequence)
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What you are doing is already fine although you can drop the starting 
index for the first slice

 >>> l=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
 >>> l[:2], l[2:]
([1, 2], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10])

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Kind Regards,
Christian Witts