[portland] Extracting strings from a tuple

[Jeff Schwaber]

On 11/2/07, Matt McCredie <mccredie at gmail.com> wrote:
> In python if you find yourself doing 'range(len(something))' it is
> time to backup and re-evaluate. Heck, you can even use list
> comprehension without the range(len(a[0])):
>
> [val for val in a[0]]

This is really the best form for this particular discussion because we
don't know quite what Rich is doing.

> > To unpack that, it's a list comprehension which look like this:
> >
> > [a for a in listofthings ]
>
> What are you doing here? Just making a copy? That is better written:

I'm not assuming Rich is familiar with list comprehensions and so was
attempting to describe their general form. Your use is cleaner,
though.

Thanks,

Jeff