On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Tobiah <t...@tobiah.org> wrote: > Although it's trivial to program, I wondered whether > there was a builtin or particularly concise way to > express this idea: > >> a = [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)] >> field[a, 2] > [2, 4, 6] > > where field() is some made up function.
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Nov 18 2008, 21:48:52) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5484)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a= [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)] >>> zip(*a) [(1, 3, 5), (2, 4, 6)] >>> zip(*a)[1] (2, 4, 6) Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
