Is there a better algorithm?
Aaron Brady
castironpi at gmail.com
Fri Jan 2 16:36:16 EST 2009
On Jan 2, 12:11 pm, Kottiyath <n.kottiy... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the following list of tuples:
> L = [(1, 2), (3, 4, 5), (6, 7)]
>
> I want to loop through the list and extract the values.
> The only algorithm I could think of is:>>> for i in l:
>
> ... u = None
> ... try:
> ... (k, v) = i
> ... except ValueError:
> ... (k, u, v) = i
> ... print k, u, v
> ---------
> 1 None 2
> 3 4 5
> 6 None 7
> -------------
> But, this algorithm doesnt look very beautiful - like say -> for k, u,
> v in L:
> Can anyone suggest a better algorithm to get the values?
for i in L:
k, u, v= i[ 0 ], i[ 1 ], i[ -1 ]
if len( i )== 2: u= None
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