Checking for keywords in several lists

[Alex Martelli]

"Heiko Wolf" <heiko.wolf at dlr.de> wrote in message
news:d013da35.0201240629.2e4af237 at posting.google.com...
    ...
> > for function, wordlist in (
> >     dosomething, ('word1', 'word2', 'word3'),
> >     dosomethingelse, ('word4', 'word5'),
    ...
> I tried your approach, but it hit me with a TypeError.
>
>     for function, wordlist in (
> TypeError: unpack non-sequence

Sorry, I had omitted one level of parentheses -- it's:

for function, wordlist in (
    (dosomething, ('word1', 'word2', 'word3')),
    (dosomethingelse, ('word4', 'word5')),

etc etc.


Alex