getting info out of a list.

[Jim Richardson]

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On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:55:58 GMT,
 Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
><posted & mailed>
> 
> Jim Richardson wrote:
> 
>> I have the following code
>> 
>> for wires in wirelist.keys():
>>         bits=wirelist[wires]
>>         Wire=("GW",wires,bits)
>>         print Wire
>> 
>> 
>> Which, depending on the data in wirelist, results in something like,
>> 
>> ('GW', 1, (11, 0, -500, 0, 0, 500, 0, 10))
>> 
>> 
>> But what I want is
>> 
>> ('GW', 1, 11, 0, -500, 0, 0, 500, 0, 10)
>> 
>> I want the tuple that is returned from the dict wirelist, to be added as
>> individual elements, rather than a tuple of individual elements, to the
>> list "bits"
>> 
>> (I hope I have explained this properly)
> 
> Well, not quite -- there seems to be some tuple-vs-lits confusions in
> your text vs your code, as well as some confusion as to what gets added
> to what else.  But I think what you want is, roughly:
> 

I think the confusion is that the data stuffed into the dict earlier,
consisted of a tuple. I wasn't clear on that part I think. 

>     Wire = ('GW', wires) + wirelist[wires]
> 
> i.e., you want to CONCATENATE the wirelist[wires] tuple right after
> the two-items tuple whose first item is 'GW' and whose second item
> is wires.  Python does express sequence concatenation as 'adding'
> (i.e., it uses the plus sign to indicate it).
> 
> 
> Alex
> 


Bingo! that was it, thank you very much. 

I knew I was missing something fundamental. 

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