On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Saurabh <phoneth...@gmail.com> wrote: > arr = ({'x':'1', 'y':'a'}, {'x':'2', 'y':'b'}, {'x':'3', 'y':'c'}) > print foo(arr, 'y') > ['a','b','c'] > > I can write the function foo to return ['a','b','c']. > Is there some 'automatic'/built-in way to get this in Python ?
from operator import itemgetter print map(itemgetter("y"), arr) Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list