Newbie getting confused again

[It's me]

Thanks, got it.


"M.E.Farmer" <mefjr75 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> It's me wrote:
> > If I have:
> >
> >     a = (1,2,3)
> >
> > how do I ended up with:
> >
> >     res=[(1), (2), (3), (4), (5)]
> >
> > without doing:
> >
> >     res=[(a[0]), (a[1]), (a[2]), (4), (5)]
> >
> > ???
> >
> > ps: This is just a nobrainer example of what my real code is trying
> to do.
> > "a" might have many many elements.   That's why the explicit indexing
> method
> > won't work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> Hello,
> List objects have a method called extend().
> It is made for this.
> Py> a = [1,2,3]
> Py> b = [4,5,6]
> Py> a.extend(b)
> Py> a
> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
> Since you are a newbie I also suggest you look at
> your objects a little and see what they have available.
>
> Py>dir(a)
> ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__',
> '__delslice__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__',
> '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__',
> '__imul__', '__init__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__',
> '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__repr__', '__rmul__',
> '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__setslice__', '__str__', 'append',
> 'count', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse',
> 'sort']
>
> Then you can try and get some help from Python.
> Py>help(a.extend)
> Help on built-in function extend:
>
> extend(...)
>     L.extend(iterable) -- extend list by appending elements from the
> iterable
>
> And finally use pydoc it is very helpful.
> Cl> python pydoc -g
> hth,
> M.E.Farmer
>