better 'splice' function

[gyromagnetic]

Thanks John and Sean for the pointer. I guess I didn't follow that
particular thread.

My problem is slightly different in that instead of a mapping of a
single tuple to a value, I will have a list of tuples, and want to
enumerate all of the possibilities.

So, for your example posting

 x = ( 'John', 'Hunter', 'where' )

map:

  m = {
       'where': [('was', 'here'),('was not', 'there')],
       'somekey': 'someval'
      }

I'd like 

y = [('John', 'Hunter',  'was', 'here'),
('John', 'Hunter','was not', 'there')]

I'll take a look at the many clever solutions that were proposed and
try to modify them accordingly.

-Brad



John Hunter <jdhunter at nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote in message news:<m27kjuibw7.fsf at mother.paradise.lost>...
> >>>>> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry at attbi.com> writes:
> 
>     Sean> something A LOT like this was discussed within the last two
>     Sean> months at length.  Many, many, many implementations were
>     Sean> presented.  Have a search through the archives.
> 
> Yep, check
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&frame=right&th=fb73946e707ff1da&seekm=mailman.1019594863.1719.python-list%40python.org#link1
> 
> John Hunter