[Tutor] Finding Match in nexted tuple

[Roger Merchberger]

At 02:44 PM 4/21/2004 -0800, Tim Johnson wrote:
>Let's say I have a list of zip codes returned from a MySQLdb query
>zip_code_list = (('84536',), ('85003',), ('85004',), ('85006',),
>                  ('85007',), ('85008',))
># and I want to look for a match for a value like '85004'
># I can think of doing it like this: (untested)

Maybe I'm being a blasphemer here, but why not put the zipcode in as part 
of your MySQLdb query?

At least for me, knowing more about how you're getting your dataset from 
MySQL would help me more on how to better answer your question.

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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