On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Sander Sweers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am learning myself python and I need to create 2, or more but > let's use 2 as an example, lists from a list with nested lists. > > For example the below, > > ['Test1', 'Text2', ['1', '2'], 'Text3'] > > Should result in, > > [['Test1', 'Text2', '1', 'Text3'], > ['Test1', 'Text2', '2', 'Text3'] > > I though of using a temp list and looping over the list twice, something like, > > somelist = ['Test1', 'Text2', ['1', '2'], 'Text3'] > templist = [] > for x in range(len(somelist[2])): > templist.append([somelist[0], somelist[1], somelist[2][x], somelist[3]])
Is it always just the third item that is a list? If so I think your solution is not too bad. You could write it as templist = [] for x in somelist[2]): templist.append(somelist[0:2] + [x] + somelist[3:]) or use a list comprehension: templist = [ somelist[0:2] + [x] + somelist[3:] for x in somelist ] Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor