Kent Johnson wrote: > It's handy to assign names to the individual elements of the list. A > variable named 'year' is a lot easier to understand than 'event[0]'. > This is easy to do with tuple unpacking: > > In [6]: for event in events: > ...: year, head, text = event > ...: print 'In', year, head, text > ...: > ...: > In 1863 headline1 event text1 > In 1992 headline2 event text2
The for loop and tuple unpacking can also be combined into the very elegant: for year, head, text in events: print 'In', year, head, text Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
