> I have a tuple of tuples, in the form--> ((code1, 'string1'),(code2, > 'string2'),(code3, 'string3'),) > > Codes are unique. A dict would probably be the best approach but this > is beyond my control. > > Here is an example: >>>> pets = ((0,'cat'),(1,'dog'),(2,'mouse')) > > If I am given a value for the code I need to retrieve the string > representation. The value is guaranteed to be valid. > > This is what I came up with... > >>>> value=1 >>>> [ pet for code, pet in pets if value==code ][0] > 'dog'
Does anything prevent you from writing that as >>> dict(pets)[value] 'dog' ? -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
