Hi, As far as I know, Python doesn't have a specific thing to handle this. You could write a tiny function that would interpre element type of list's elements. It checks type, if it is a list then get that pair manually...
If list is going like that 'a' - '1', 'b' - '2', you should use dictionary. -- Sönmez Kartal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
