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Moondra
Moondra

Reputation: 4531

confusing behavior of tuple unpacking -- for loop on a list of tuples

I have a list of tuples `data`:

data =[(array([[2, 1, 3]]), array([1])),
 (array([[2, 1, 2]]), array([1])),
 (array([[4, 4, 4]]), array([0])),
 (array([[4, 1, 1]]), array([0])),
 (array([[4, 4, 3]]), array([0]))]

For simplicity's sake, this list here only has 5 tuples.

When I run the following code, it seem I am able to unpack each tuple with each iteration:

for x,y in data2:
    print(x,y)


output:

[[2 1 3]] [1]
[[2 1 2]] [1]
[[4 4 4]] [0]
[[4 1 1]] [0]
[[4 4 3]] [0]


This also works:

for x,y in data2[:2]:
    print(x,y)


output:

[[2 1 3]] [1]
[[2 1 2]] [1]


However, when I take only a single tuple from the list:

for x,y in data2[0]:
    print(x,y)


output: 
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-185-1eed1fccdb3a> in <module>()
----> 1 for x,y in data2[0]:
      2     print(x,y)

ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 2, got 1)

I'm confused as to how tuples are being unpacked in the earlier cases, that are preventing the last case to also successfully unpack the tuples.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 120

Answers (2)

Ajax1234
Ajax1234

Reputation: 71471

If your data looks like this:

data =[([[2, 1, 3]], [1]),
([[2, 1, 2]], [1]),
([[4, 4, 4]]), [0]),
([[4, 1, 1]], [0]),
([[4, 4, 3]], [0])]

for [a], b in data:
    print a, b

Output:

[2, 1, 3] [1]
[2, 1, 2] [1]
[4, 4, 4] [0]
[4, 1, 1] [0]
[4, 4, 3] [0]

Upvotes: 0

Pythonist
Pythonist

Reputation: 697

In the first two cases you're looping through list, in the last one you're accessing tuple

Not sure what you want to achieve, but instead of data[0], data[:1] would work.

Upvotes: 4

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