Hi,
I'm looking for an elegant solution of the following tiny but common problem.
I have a list of tuples (Unique_ID,Date) both of which are strings.
I want to delete the tuple (element) with a given Unique_ID, but
I don't known the corresponding Date.
My straight forward solution is a bit lengthy, e.g.
L=[("a","070501"),("b","080115"),("c","071231")]
pos=-1
found=-1
for (Key,Date) in L :
pos+= 1
if Key == "b" :
found= pos
break
if found >= 0 :
del L[found]
print L
Most probably there are much more elegant solutions.
Unfortunately, the index-list-method doesn't take an
additional function argument for the comparisons.
Many thanks for your hints,
Helmut Jarausch
Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany
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