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I have a program that keeps some of its data in a list of tuples. Sometimes, I want to be able to find that data out of the list. Here is the list in question:<BR>
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<TT>[('password01', 'unk'), ('host', 'dragonstone.org'), ('port', '1234'), ('character01', 'Thessalus')]</TT><BR>
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For a regular list, I could do something like x.index('host') and find the index of it, but I don't know how to do this for a tuple where the data item isn't known in advance. For example, I want to get the "host" entry from the list above; but I can only retrieve it if I know what it contains (e.g., x.index(('host', 'dragonstone.org'))).<BR>
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Is there a better way to do this than a construct similar the following?<BR>
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<TT>for key, value in x:</TT><BR>
<TT> if key == 'host':</TT><BR>
<TT> print value</TT><BR>
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Thanks in advance!<BR>
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— Mike<BR>
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