Compact way to assign values by slicing list in Python

Question

I have the following list

bar = [\'a\',\'b\',\'c\',\'x\',\'y\',\'z\']

What I want to do is to assign 1st, 4th and 5th values of bar

Answer 1

Assuming that your indices are neither dynamic nor too large, I'd go with

bar = ['a','b','c','x','y','z']
v1, _, _, v2, v3, _ = bar