On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:04 AM, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote: > In <6049bc85-6f8e-429b-a855-ecef47a9d...@googlegroups.com> > subhabangal...@gmail.com writes: > >> Dear Group, > >> I have a tuple of list as, > >> tup_list=[(1,2), (3,4)] >> Now if I want to covert as a simple list, > >> list=[1,2,3,4] > >> how may I do that? > > new_list = [] > > for t in tup_list: > for item in t: > new_list.append(item)
Which can be written more succintly as: new_list = [] for t in tup_list: new_list.extend(t) In more general terms, what you're looking to do here is *flatten* your structure. Not sure if that would have helped in the web search that you doubtless did before asking this question. :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list