[portland] Extracting strings from a tuple

[Jeff Schwaber]

[a[0][i] for i in range(len(a[0]))]

To unpack that, it's a list comprehension which look like this:

[a for a in listofthings ]

or equivalent to

newlist=[]
for a in listofthings:
   newlist += a

but this one is a[0][i] which gets into the list and then into the tuple.

Jeff

On 11/2/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    While this should be simple, I cannot get it working and would appreciate
> guidance on solving my problem.
>
>    There is a database table with a single record. When I retrieve that
> record I have a list consisting of a single tuple. However, that tuple has 7
> strings; when printed it looks like this:
>
> [(u'string 1', u'string 2', u'string 3', u'string 4', u'string 5', u'string
> 6', u'string 7')]
>
>    What I want to do is walk through that tuple and extract each string.
> However, I cannot successfully slice it, iterate through it, or use an index
> to extract each string. According to "DIP," "Byte of Python," and other
> books I should be able to get each string as a separate item.
>
>    What have I missed?
>
> Rich
>
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