De-tupleizing a list

Gnarlodious gnarlodious at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 08:19:08 EDT 2011


On Apr 25, 10:59 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> In Python 3, map becomes lazy and returns an iterator instead of a list,
> so you have to wrap it in a call to list().

Ah, thanks for that tip. Also works for outputting a tuple:
list_of_tuples=[('0A',), ('1B',), ('2C',), ('3D',)]

#WRONG:
(x for (x,) in list_of_tuples)
<generator object <genexpr> at 0x1081ee0>

#RIGHT:
tuple(x for (x,) in list_of_tuples)

Thanks everyone for the abundant help.

-- Gnarlie



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