Is there a better algorithm?

[Aaron Brady]

On Jan 2, 12:11 pm, Kottiyath <n.kottiy... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the following list of tuples:
> L = [(1, 2), (3, 4, 5), (6, 7)]
>
> I want to loop through the list and extract the values.
> The only algorithm I could think of is:>>> for i in l:
>
> ...  u = None
> ...  try:
> ...   (k, v) = i
> ...  except ValueError:
> ...   (k, u, v) = i
> ...  print k, u, v
> ---------
> 1 None 2
> 3 4 5
> 6 None 7
> -------------
> But, this algorithm doesnt look very beautiful - like say -> for k, u,
> v in L:
> Can anyone suggest a better algorithm to get the values?

for i in L:
  k, u, v= i[ 0 ], i[ 1 ], i[ -1 ]
  if len( i )== 2: u= None