wildcard in tuples

[Erik Max Francis]

cyberian bear wrote:

> Yep, that looks like just what i needed. but is there a way to modify
> those
> statements so that they can be used in 'if then ' statement. So it
> will go
> something like that:
> if (# of matched terms is greater than 0) :
>     do stuff

With the selectTuple function I wrote, which returns a list of matched
tuples, it would simply be:

    if selectTuple(list, matchingTuple):
        do stuff

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