[Tutor] question about for loops

[taserian]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Richard D. Moores <rdmoores at gmail.com>wrote:

> On p. 162 of "Programming In Python", 2nd ed., by Summerfield, the
> section entitled "for Loops" begins:
>
> =========================================
> for expression in iterable:
>     for_suite
> else:
>     else_suite
>
> The expression is normally either a single variable or a sequence of
> variables, usually in the form of a tuple. If a tuple or list is used
> for the expression, each item is unpacked into the expression's items.
> ======================================
>
> I thought I was quite familiar with for loops, but I don't understand
> how the expression can be a sequence of variables, nor what  unpacking
> into the expression's items means. Could someone explain this,
> preferably with an example?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dick Moores
>
>
As an example, think of a list of tuples, similar to the following:

tuplelist = [ (1, "a"), (2, "b"), (3, "c") ]

To process them and handle each tuples elements individually, you can have
the for statement:

for (a, b) in tuplelist:
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