Newbie: How to convert a tuple of strings into a tuple of ints

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Thanks much - both solutions work well for me




On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 2:57:50 PM UTC-8, Ben Finney wrote:
> kierkegaard at gmail.com writes:
> 
> > How do I get from here
> >
> > t = ('1024', '1280')
> >
> > to 
> >
> > t = (1024, 1280)
> 
> Both of those are assignment statements, so I'm not sure what you mean
> by "get from ... to". To translate one assignment statement to a different
> assignment statement, re-write the statement.
> 
> 
> But I think you want to produce a new sequence from an existing sequence.
> 
> The 'map' built-in function is useful for that::
> 
>     sequence_of_numbers_as_text = ['1024', '1280']
>     sequence_of_integers = map(int, sequence_of_numbers_as_text)
> 
> That sequence can then be iterated.
> 
> Another (more broadly useful) way is to use a generator expression::
> 
>     sequence_of_integers = (int(item) for item in sequence_of_numbers_as_text)
> 
> 
> If you really want a tuple, just pass that sequence to the 'tuple'
> callable::
> 
>     tuple_of_integers = tuple(
>             int(item) for item in sequence_of_numbers_as_text)
> 
> or::
> 
>     tuple_of_integers = tuple(map(int, sequence_of_numbers_as_text))
> 
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> Ben Finney