In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1...@d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> ksals <kbsals5...@gmail.com> writes:
> The original choice looks like this when I print it: > print(choice) > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') > I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterbox. Each entry above > ksals, "", "alsdkfj', 3 , '' need to fill the five fields in the box. > I tried your suggestion so you must be right it is a tuple of 5 > strings. But I need them to work in an instruction like > fieldValues =3D eg.multenterbox(msg1,title, fieldNames, choice) > fieldNames has 5 fields. If you just need to convert a tuple to a list, that's easy. Call the built-in function list() and pass the tuple as an intializer: >>> choice = ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') >>> print choice ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') >>> choice_list = list(choice) >>> print choice_list ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', ''] -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list