python select specific elements from a list

Question

Is there a "pythonic" way of getting only certain values from a list, similar to this perl code:

my ($one,$four,$ten) = line.split(/,/)[1,4,10] 

Answer 1

Using a list comprehension

line = '0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10' lst = line.split(',') one, four, ten = [lst[i] for i in [1,4,10]] 

Answer 2

I think you are looking for operator.itemgetter:

import operator line=','.join(map(str,range(11))) print(line) # 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 alist=line.split(',') print(alist) # ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '10'] one,four,ten=operator.itemgetter(1,4,10)(alist) print(one,four,ten) # ('1', '4', '10')