help with explaining how to split a list of tuples into parts

[peter at ifoley.id.au]

On Saturday, 13 July 2013 17:28:50 UTC+10, Peter Otten  wrote:
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> Every time when you have to look up something you should think 'dict', and I
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> expect that pretty that will happen automatically.
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> Also, to split a tuple into its items you can "unpack" it:
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> 
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> triple = (1, 2, 3)
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> one, two, three = triple
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> assert one == 1 and two == 2 and three == 3
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> 
> 
> So:
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> 
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> supported_hashes = {
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>     "crypt": (2, "", 13),
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>     "md5": (8, "$1$", 22),
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>     ...
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> }
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> ...
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> parser.add_argument(
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>     '--hash', default='sha512', 
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>     choices=supported_hashes, # accept the keys
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>     help='Which Hash function to use')
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> ...
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> salt_length, hash_type, expected_password_length = supported_hashes[args.hash]
> 
> ...

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the pointers I will try your suggestion out and read some more.

Peter.