Accessing non-consecutive elements of a list in python

Accessing non-consecutive elements of a list in python

As far as I can tell, this is not officially not possible, but is there a
"trick" to access arbitrary non-sequential elements of a list by slicing?
For example:
>>> L = range(0,101,10)
>>> L
[0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100]
Now I want to be able to do
a,b = L[2,5]
so that a == 20 and b == 50
One way besides two statements would be something silly like:
a,b = L[2:6:3][:2]
But that doesn't scale at all to irregular intervals.
Maybe with list comprehension using the indices I want?
[L[x] for x in [2,5]]
I would love to know what is recommended for this common problem.