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poopman · Feb 12th, 2007, 6:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arevos

If you want to access an element of a tuple, you can use indices, in the same way you would an array or list:

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result = (datetime.date(2007, 2, 9),)
date = result[0]
print date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
result = (datetime.date(2007, 2, 9),)
date = result[0]
print date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

Or simply:

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print result[0].strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
print result[0].strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

You can also assign a tuple to an set of variables to get its contents:

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coords = (4, 6)
x, y = coords
coords = (4, 6)
x, y = coords

And for a tuple with a single value:

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result = (datetime.date(2007, 2, 9),)
date, = result
result = (datetime.date(2007, 2, 9),)
date, = result

This notation when applied to only one value is a little obscure, however.

Thanks for this. I tried out all these methods and kept coming up with this error:

AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'strftime'

I can't figure out why this isn't working as it seems pretty straightfoward.