[Tutor] pass tuples to user defined function(beginner)

[Dave Angel]

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On 11/28/2011 01:45 PM, Mayo Adams wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I didn't say Python had a type called "tuple
> strings", just that the lines in the file were tuples, and that the
> elements of each tuple were strings. I suppose that is what I should
> have said.

Still wrong on both counts.  A tuple does not and cannot exist in such a 
file.  And the original tuple must have consisted of a string and a number.

> If I knew how to avoid the parenthesis, I would have, and it is
> helpful to know that there is nothing meaningful about the
> parentheses, as you say. Ill try to find a way to write the data to
> the file without the parentheses.

The parentheses is only part of the problem.  You still haven't defined 
what constraints you had on the data in those tuples.  If you do, we can 
suggest various ways to store the data so that it's easy, efficient, 
and/or possible to retrieve it again.


Now since your message was out of order, I had to delete all the rest of 
the history.



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DaveA