On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Chris Roy-Smith <chris_roysmith.noth...@internode.on.net> wrote: > Just learning python. > I can see that I can address an individual element of a list of lists by > doing something like: > row = list[5] > element = row[3] > > But is there a way to directly address an entry in a single statement?
Yep! element = list[5][3] Everything's an expression, there's nothing special about something that's stored in a variable. You can even use square brackets after a function call that returns a list (which is very useful at times). Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
