Do you really want quotation marks around "titlelist1[x][1]" ? e.g.
>>> textfilelist = [["titlelist1[x][1]"]] >>> textfilelist[0][1] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? IndexError: list index out of range On Thursday 14 April 2005 06:51 pm, Brett wrote: > I am trying to pass the value of a nested list into a function (to my "if" > statement) as follows: > > textfilelist = [["titlelist1[x][1]"]] > def idfer(listlength, comparelistlength, list): > while x < (listlength - 1): > while y < comparelistlength: > if list == titlelist2[y][1]: > (I cutoff the end to focus on the problem) > > #Here i call my function hoping i am passing the value within > textfilelist[0][0] to my function > idfer(textfilelist[0][1], textfilelist[1][1], textfilelist[0][0]) > > > -------------- > I don't if there is a "legal" way to do this, but I would appreciate some > guidance. > > Thanks, > > Brett -- James Stroud, Ph.D. UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
