Head and tail in one line

Question

Is there a pythonic way to unpack a list in the first element and the \"tail\" in a single command?

For example:

>> head, tail = **some_magic a         


        

Answer 1

>>> mylist = [1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55]
>>> head, tail = mylist[0], mylist[1:]
>>> head
1
>>> tail
[1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55]