title: Extended tuple unpacking in Python 2
body: <p>Is it possible to simulate extended tuple unpacking in Python 2?</p>
  
  <p>Specifically, I have a for loop:</p>
  
  <pre><code>for a, b, c in mylist:
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which works fine when mylist is a list of tuples of size three.  I want the same for loop to work if I pass in a list of size four.</p>
  
  <p>I think I will end up using named tuples, but I was wondering if there is an easy way to write:</p>
  
  <pre><code>for a, b, c, *d in mylist:
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so that <code>d</code> eats up any extra members.</p>