[portland] Indexing Lists of Tuples

[kirby urner]

Helpful at all?:

>>> thedata
[(u'Low', u'HabitatComplexity', u'Terrestrial', u'Wildlife', u'Decay
S-Curve', 1, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0, 1.0),
(u'High', u'HabitatComplexity', u'Terrestrial', u'Wildlife', u'Growth
S-Curve', 2, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 1.0, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0, 1.0)]

>>> [thetuple for thetuple in thedata if thetuple[4]==2]
[]

>>> [thetuple for thetuple in thedata if thetuple[5]==2]
[(u'High', u'HabitatComplexity', u'Terrestrial', u'Wildlife', u'Growth
S-Curve', 2, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 1.0, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0, 1.0)]

Kirby

On 9/28/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    For some reason, I cannot find the answer to what I assumed to be a
> trivially simple question: given a list of tuples, how do I reference items
> within a given tuple?
>
>    Looking at "Byte of Python," "Dive Into Python," and "Learning Python" the
> explanations of lists and tuples deal with the equivalent of a 1-dimensional
> array. The only reference to multiple indices, e.g., L[1][0], note that this
> is the fist element of the second item in the list. My experiments on my
> data bear this out.
>
>    In my situation, I have rows retrieved from database tables and stored in
> variables as lists of tuples. For example:
>
> [(u'Low', u'HabitatComplexity', u'Terrestrial', u'Wildlife', u'Decay
> S-Curve', 1, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0, 1.0)
> (u'High', u'HabitatComplexity', u'Terrestrial', u'Wildlife', u'Growth
> S-Curve', 2, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 1.0, 0.5, 0.5, 1.0, 1.0)]
>
>    I would like to extract the tuple where element 5 == 2; in this example,
> the second tuple in the list. Is there a way to directly reference tuple 1, item 5
> as one would in C as [1][5]?
>
>    The best I've come up with is to search for the tuple with elements I
> want, then append them to a new list. Now I have a list with only one set of
> elements and I can index them directly.
>
>    Spent too much time today beating my head against the wall, trying to
> learn how to address specific elements in lists of tuples. Can it be done?
> If so, please teach me how.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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