Python shortcut ?

[Santanu Chatterjee]

Hello everybody,

I am very new to Python. So pardon me if this question is
too dumb.

Suppose I have the following list:
myList = [('a','hello), ('b','bye')]

How do I get only the first element of each tuple in the
above list to be printed without using:
for i in range(len(myList)):
print myList[i][0]
or:
for i in myList:
print i[0]

I tried:
print myList[:][0]
but it seems to have an altogether different meaning.

Regards,
Santanu

[Santanu Chatterjee]

Please ignore this message. It had been written much before
my other thread on 'A Query about List' and for some reason
had stayed in the 'send later' folder of Pan, and accidentally
got posted today.

Sorry.

Regards,
Santanu

[David Eppstein]

In article <pa****************************@softhome.net>,
"Santanu Chatterjee" <sa*****@softhome.net> wrote:

Suppose I have the following list:
myList = [('a','hello), ('b','bye')]

How do I get only the first element of each tuple in the
above list to be printed without using:
for i in range(len(myList)):
print myList[i][0]
or:
for i in myList:
print i[0]

I tried:
print myList[:][0]
but it seems to have an altogether different meaning.

If you're set on a one-liner, you could try

print zip(*myList)[1]

or

print [word for letter,word in myList]

These are no quite the same -- zip makes tuples, the list comprehension
makes a list. My own preference would be for the list comprehension --
it's not as concise, but the meaning is clearer.

--
David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science

[Santanu Chatterjee]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:21:21 -0700, David Eppstein wrote:

In article <pa****************************@softhome.net>,
"Santanu Chatterjee" <sa*****@softhome.net> wrote:

Suppose I have the following list:
myList = [('a','hello), ('b','bye')]

How do I get only the first element of each tuple in the above list to
be printed without using:
for i in range(len(myList)):
print myList[i][0] I tried:
print myList[:][0]
but it seems to have an altogether different meaning.

If you're set on a one-liner, you could try
print zip(*myList)[1]
or
print [word for letter,word in myList]

These are no quite the same -- zip makes tuples, the list comprehension
makes a list. My own preference would be for the list comprehension --
it's not as concise, but the meaning is clearer.

Thanks for the solution. I was already using the second solution.
I did not know about the zip function.

Regards,
Santanu

[Santanu Chatterjee]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:21:21 -0700, David Eppstein wrote:

In article <pa****************************@softhome.net>,
"Santanu Chatterjee" <sa*****@softhome.net> wrote:

Suppose I have the following list:
myList = [('a','hello), ('b','bye')]

How do I get only the first element of each tuple in the above list to
be printed without using:
for i in range(len(myList)):
print myList[i][0]
or:
for i in myList:
print i[0]

I tried:
print myList[:][0]
but it seems to have an altogether different meaning.

If you're set on a one-liner, you could try
print zip(*myList)[1]
or
print [word for letter,word in myList]

These are no quite the same -- zip makes tuples, the list comprehension
makes a list. My own preference would be for the list comprehension --
it's not as concise, but the meaning is clearer.

Thanks for the solution. I was already using the second solution.
I did not know about the zip function.

Regards,
Santanu