On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 11:32:32PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> T = [[11, 12, 5, 2], [15, 6, 10], [10, 8, 12, 5], [12, 15, 8, 6]]
>>> print(T[1, 2])
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not tuple
If you want a helper function, it's not hard to write it:
def fetch(collection, indices):
for index in indices:
collection = collection[index]
return collection
Job done. This doesn't belong on the list type, because you might want
the exact same behaviour starting with (or incorporating) a dict, or
any other type that can be subscripted.
Thank you. Great idea. Such function could be made default method for
any subscriptable. :-)
H.
PS: For dicts there is a better solution, Munch, munchify(),
https://github.com/Infinidat/munch
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