On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 8, 2014 10:31 AM, "MRAB" <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> If the RHS yields too few, e.g. 3, you'll get: >> >> ValueError: attempt to assign sequence of size 3 to extended slice of size 4 >> >> If it yields too many, e.g. 10, you'll get: >> >> ValueError: attempt to assign sequence of size 10 to extended slice of size 4 > [snip] >> The fix would be to complain of raise StopIteration doesn't occur after >> N+1 yields, where N is the number of values needed by the LHS. > > Perhaps N+2 would be better: > > raise RuntimeError('{} is right out'.format(n+2)) It would be nice to have a simple notation that fetches what it needs and ignores any extras. a, b, c, * = x.split("-") Bomb if there aren't two hyphens in x, but if there are more, just take the first three and ignore the rest. Would work with infinite iterators quite happily. ChrisA
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