At Friday 20/10/2006 16:14, John Salerno wrote:
I'm a little confused, but I'm sure this is something trivial. I'm
confused about why this works:
>>> t = (('hello', 'goodbye'),
('more', 'less'),
('something', 'nothing'),
('good', 'bad'))
I understand that t returns a single tuple that contains other tuples.
Then 'for x in t' returns the nested tuples themselves.
But what I don't understand is why you can use 'for x,y in t' when t
really only returns one thing. I see that this works, but I can't quite
conceptualize how. I thought 'for x,y in t' would only work if t
returned a two-tuple, which it doesn't.
You can think of
for x in t:
whatever
as meaning "for each element contained in t, name it x and do whatever"
The other concept involved is unpacking:
>>> w = (1,2,3)
>>> x,y,z = w
>>> x
1
When you say "for x,y in t:" there is an implicit unpacking, it means
"for each element contained in t, unpack it into x and y and do whatever"
What seems to be happening is that 'for x,y in t' is acting like:
for x in t:
for y,z in x:
#then it does it correctly
No, it acts like:
for w in t:
x,y = w
...
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Gabriel Genellina
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