error converting list to tuple

john fabiani jfabiani at yolo.com
Tue May 18 11:28:55 EDT 2004


john fabiani wrote:

> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> 
>> hi there,
>>
>> I'm trying to convert a tuple to a list,
>> and get a 'TypeError: list objects are unhashable'.
>>
>> Can anybody enlighten me as to the possible causes
>> for this ? Where does hashing come into play during
>> this conversion ?
>>
>> Could it be that my runtime is corrupted ?
>> The code is executed from within a C++ extension
>> module I'm developing...
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>         Stefan
>>
>> PS: I'm using python 2.3.3 in case that matters
>>
>>
> God I can't believe I think I can answer this question:
> mylist=[]
> t=('123','hello','bye')
> for count in range(0,len(t)):
>   mylist.append(t[count])
> 
> It works for me.
> John
even better than above:

mylist=list(t)


See everyone I'm learning but it is not easy for an old man to learn new 
tricks.

John



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