Getting at an item in a list of tupples

[Emile van Sebille]

"Bob Greschke" <bob at passcal.nmt.edu> wrote in message
news:9v66mi$17mi$1 at newshost.nmt.edu...
> Here's what I've got
>
>    a = []
>    a.append((ints, floats, strings))
>    a.append((ints, floats, strings))
>    a.append((ints, floats, strings))
>    a.append((ints, floats, strings))
>    ...
>
> I want to do something like
>
>    print max(of all of the floats)
>    print min(of all of the floats)
>
> In general, how do you get at the floats (or ints, or strings)?  We
> can see doing something with map() calling a function that returns the
> second item, but isn't there something a little simpler?
>

Assuming you've got tuples of length 3 where index 1 is always a float:

>>> a = []
>>> a.append((1,2.,'3'))
>>> a.append((11,12.,'13'))
>>> a.append((21,22.,'23'))
>>> a
[(1, 2.0, '3'), (11, 12.0, '13'), (21, 22.0, '23')]
>>> max([i[1] for i in a])

HTH,

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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