stripping punctuation from tuples

Louis Luangkesorn lluang at northwestern.edu
Tue Mar 20 20:49:21 EST 2001


Yep, I finally got it to work.

Wayne Izatt wrote:

> Is this what you're looking for?
>
> >>> a = []
> >>> a.append(('Alan Tsang',))
> >>> a
> [('Alan Tsang',)]
> >>> a[0]
> ('Alan Tsang',)
> >>> b = a[0]
> >>> b
> ('Alan Tsang',)
> >>> (x, y) = string.split(str(b[0]))
> >>> x, y
> ('Alan', 'Tsang')
> >>> x
> 'Alan'
> >>> y
> 'Tsang'
> >>>
>
> cheerio

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