Just to add to Nolen’s answer, in Python 3, you can also unpack the rest, like this:
>>> a, b, *rest = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
>>> a
1
>>> rest
[3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Unfortunately, this does not work in Python 2 though.
Just to add to Nolen’s answer, in Python 3, you can also unpack the rest, like this:
>>> a, b, *rest = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
>>> a
1
>>> rest
[3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Unfortunately, this does not work in Python 2 though.