On Jan 2, 12:11 pm, Kottiyath <n.kottiy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have the following list of tuples: > L = [(1, 2), (3, 4, 5), (6, 7)] > > I want to loop through the list and extract the values. > The only algorithm I could think of is:>>> for i in l: > > ... u = None > ... try: > ... (k, v) = i > ... except ValueError: > ... (k, u, v) = i > ... print k, u, v > --------- > 1 None 2 > 3 4 5 > 6 None 7 > ------------- > But, this algorithm doesnt look very beautiful - like say -> for k, u, > v in L: > Can anyone suggest a better algorithm to get the values?
for i in L: k, u, v= i[ 0 ], i[ 1 ], i[ -1 ] if len( i )== 2: u= None -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list