new to python - please help

[Owen Stevens]

(apologies for last post)

i made a dictionary (mydict) with the following structure:         
            mykey=(list1:list2)

i overwrote list1 inside the dictionary with a new list
            
     templist1=[mydict[mykey][0]
     templist.append(new_values)
     mydict[mykey]=(templist,templist2)
	




i then tried to retrieve list1 

        for i in mydict[mykey][0]:
             print i


it comes out like this:




[[[[[['value1'], "['value2']"], "['value3']"], "['value4']"],
"['value5']"], "['value6']"]['value7']



which is pretty useless, as len[list1] returns 2 instead of 7 


can anyone point me in the right direction?