James Fassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tuple_list = ( > ('John', 'Doe'), > ('Mark', 'Mason'), > ('Jeff', 'Stevens'), > ('Bat', 'Man') > ) > # the final functional way > [result_list, _] = zip(*tuple_list)
That's really ugly IMO. I'd use: result_list = list(x for (x,y) in tuple_list) I don't like square-bracket listcomps because they leak the index variables to the outside. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list