Retreiving a single number from a list of numbers ?

[Alex K]

Peter Moscatt wrote:
> 
> I am trying to extract a value from a variable that contains more than one
> value.
> 
> For example:
>     If  I assigned the result of wxGetClientDisplayRect() to the var 'a'
> like:
>         a = wxGetClientDisplayRect()
> 
> the 'a' would return something like (0, 0, 800. 540)
> 
> How then would I assign the 800 from 'a' and give it to a var called 'b' ??
> 
> Regards
> Pete

>>> a=(0, 0, 800, 540)
>>> a
(0, 0, 800, 540)
>>> a[2]                     <-- slicing
800
>>> (0, 0, 800, 540)[0]
0
>>> (0, 0, 800, 540)[3]
540
>>>