[Tutor] Understanding what the code does behind the scenes

[Alan Gauld]

"Dave Angel" <davea at ieee.org> wrote 


>    for text, color in color_items:      #3
>        textcolor(color)          #4
>        print text                    #5

Ah! Good call, I never thought of unpacking the tuple in the loop.
Big improvement.
 
> It would be possible (and maybe even desirable) to write a different 
> function to just take a single string, and parse it for some escape 
> sequence to cause the color changes.  But that's not what this one does.

I considered doing that but figured the OP would get even 
more confused if I tried that!  :-)

Alan G.