Try "value..."

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Randy Zwitch <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have a data frame where the year, month, day, hour, etc. are in
> different columns. I want to use Datetime.jl to make timestamps, then do
> some processing.
>
> I tried to attack the problem like the following (which is to say,
> Python-style), but it didn't work:
>
> test[:start_date] = [datetime(year,month,day) for year,month,day in
> zip(test[:Year], test[:Month], test[:DayofMonth])]
>
> The working solution:
>
> test[:start_date] = [datetime(value[1],value[2],value[3]) for value in
> zip(test[:Year], test[:Month], test[:DayofMonth])]
>
> I was somewhat surprised that I had to reference the fields in the tuple
> by position, when syntax like a,b,c = (1,2,3) works elsewhere. Is there
> something I'm missing/forgetting? Is there a better way to use multiple
> columns from a data frame in a function to return a new column in the data
> frame?
>

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