Getting the first element x from a list

Question

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I have a string and I am separating a character ;, I would like to associate this string with variables, but only the first lines of x are useful to me, the others are redundant;

I wanted to use this code below, but if there are more than 4 coms than this throws an exception. Is there an easy way?

az1, el1, az2, el2, rfsspe = data_point.split(";")  

Answer 1

Yes! Use slicing :

az1, el1, az2, el2, rfsspe = data_point.split(";")[:5]

This "cuts" the list to get only the first 5 items.

Answer 2

, , , (var_list), , , -

for x in var_list[:5]:
    print x #or do something