Unpacking a single tuple _or_ a pair

[Richard Brodie]

"Oleg Broytmann" <phd at phd.russ.ru> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0003131526010.14992-100000 at fep132.fep.ru...
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Peter Bittner wrote:
> >   for i in range(len(datalist)):
> >     try:
> >       value, text = datalist[i] # separate pair's values
> >     except:
> >       text, = datalist[i] # assume single value on fail
> >       value = ''
>
>    Just check len(datalist[i])...

and seeing as you've offered your code for public abuse ;),
for i in range(len(datalist)): is somewhat unidiomatic.

for t in datalist:
    if len(t) etc works as well, and is somewhat cleaner.