[Tutor] Finding Match in nexted tuple
Tim Johnson
tim at johnsons-web.com
Wed Apr 21 19:52:16 EDT 2004
* Roger Merchberger <zmerch at 30below.com> [040421 15:39]:
> 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?
:-) You're not being a blasphemer, that's a real world way for that
particular problem, I should have used a different example...
My question still stand regardless of whether its from
mysql or not. What if it were a hard-coded data-structure?
thanks
tim
> 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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