bearophile wrote: >Fuzzyman: > >> for i in l: >> u = None >> if len(i) == 2: >> k, v = i >> else: >> k, u, v = i > >That's the best solution I have seen in this thread so far (but I >suggest to improve indents and use better variable names). In >programming it's generally better to follow the KISS principle.
Strange that nobody has suggested: for Tup in Lst: for item in Tup: print item, print Because if I recall correctly, all the OP was doing was printing the stuff. Gets a bit hairier if you want to return the values though. - if you replace the first print statement above with a yield and delete the second, bare print, you lose knowledge of which tuple the item belongs to. It is not trivial to do if you don't have a priori knowledge of the maximum and minimum tuple length. Seems to me it is one of those gems that is a PITA to do completely generally - basically because you don't know when you call it how many items to unpack - so you have to return a count or something, or just fall back on a two step approach - get the tuple from the list, then do something with the items in the tuple. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list