On Sep 15, 6:00 pm, Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Ross <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm inexperienced with some of the fancy list slicing syntaxes where > > python shines. > > > If I have a list of tuples: > > > k=[("a", "bob", "c"), ("p", "joe", "d"), ("x", "mary", "z")] > > > and I want to pull the middle element out of each tuple to make a new > > list: > > > myList = ["bob", "joe", "mary"] > > > is there some compact way to do that? I can imagine the obvious one > > of > > > myList = [] Thanks both Chris and André. That's quite obvious once it's pointed out for me. Thanks especially for the terminology that will make learning the related concepts a bit easier.
Ross > > for a in k: > > myList.append(a[1]) > > > But I'm guessing Python has something that will do that in one line... > > > Any suggestion is appreciated... > > You can use a list comprehension: > > myList = [a[1] for a in k] > > -- > André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list