Thanks for this trick. Can I call this as category thermo-NUKE of list functions. -K
--- Jeff Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kumar s wrote: > > > Problem: > > How do i capture every alternative element in list > a: > > > > I am unable to pump the a,b, and c into keys list > > and apple, boy,cat into vals list. > > In a sufficiently recent version of Python, you > should be able to use > an extended slice with a stride -- > > keys = a[::2] > vals = a[1::2] > > (Note that this is untested, as I don't have a > recent version of > Python handy at the moment; I'm on 2.2 here, which > doesn't have > extended slices.) > > Jeff Shannon > Technician/Programmer > Credit International > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
