list of lists

Johannes Gijsbers jlg at python.org
Mon Sep 15 10:45:35 EDT 2003


On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:59:56 +0200, Tom wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a list that consists of lists. E.g. T=[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [6]]
> Is there a way to address the a specific component in the "inner" list
> directly?
> E.g. right now I want to get the second value of the first list.
> Unfortunately I have to save it to a variable first and then read it. a =
> T[0]
> print a[1]

Try using T[0][1]. T[0] is exactly equivalent to 'a', so you can use
the same operations, you don't have to assign to 'a' first.

Johannes






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