accessing elements of a tuple

[Tim Chase]

> let me re-phrase that question:
> i would like to access the element of individual tuples inside of a
> list, by using an index.
> so i have the list contents
> 
> print list
> [('--datasourcename', 'DB'), ('--password', '123')]
> 
> How can I access "DB" from the list directly using an index?
> 
> right now I would have to grab the tuple and the use the index of the tuple

Well, you can use

   lst[0][1]

to get it.  Or, if you're parsing through the list, you can use 
tuple unpacking:

   for name, value in lst:
     print "%s = %s" % (name, value)

As an aside, it looks like you're doing parameter parsing.  The 
standard library has the optparse module which takes a lot of 
pain out of parsing parameters.

-tkc