Rookie Question: Passing a nested list into a function?

[Brett]

I think so.  I later reference it as textfilelist[0][0].  My intent is to be 
able to use: titlelist1[x][1] as part of my "if" statement in my function.

-Brett



"James Stroud" <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1945.1113532023.1799.python-list at python.org...
>
> Do you really want quotation marks around "titlelist1[x][1]" ?
>
> e.g.
>
>>>> textfilelist = [["titlelist1[x][1]"]]
>>>> textfilelist[0][1]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
>
>
> On Thursday 14 April 2005 06:51 pm, Brett wrote:
>> I am trying to pass the value of a nested list into a function (to my 
>> "if"
>> statement) as follows:
>>
>> textfilelist = [["titlelist1[x][1]"]]
>> def idfer(listlength, comparelistlength, list):
>>         while x < (listlength - 1):
>>                        while y < comparelistlength:
>>                             if list == titlelist2[y][1]:
>> (I cutoff the end to focus on the problem)
>>
>> #Here i call my function hoping i am passing the value within
>> textfilelist[0][0] to my function
>> idfer(textfilelist[0][1], textfilelist[1][1], textfilelist[0][0])
>>
>>
>> --------------
>> I don't if there is a "legal" way to do this, but I would appreciate some
>> guidance.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brett
>
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