I think so. I later reference it as textfilelist[0][0]. My intent is to be able to use: titlelist1[x][1] as part of my "if" statement in my function.
-Brett "James Stroud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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
