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halberdier15
halberdier15

Reputation: 39

Python removing list elements issue

How can I solve the following problem? I want to delete parentheses and commas.

output = [("apple",), ("orange",), ("banana",)]

desired output = ["apple", "orange", "banana"]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 70

Answers (2)

S.B
S.B

Reputation: 16476

The items inside the list are tuples, simply iterate over it and get the items inside those tuples:

print([item for tup in output for item in tup])

This solution will work if your tuples are like [("apple","something-else"), ("orange",), ("banana",)]

Since in your situation there is only one item, you can do the following as well:

print([tup[0] for tup in output])

print([x for x, in output])  # Thanks @timgeb for mentioning in comments.
print([x for [x] in output])

Upvotes: 2

Steven Thomas
Steven Thomas

Reputation: 374

output = [("apple",), ("orange",), ("banana",)]

# this bit is not needed, but is how I would go about 
# learning about the structure of my data
>>> type(output) # find output type
list
>>> len(output) # find output length
3
>>>type(output[0]) # find output's element types
tuple

# this is how I would tackle the problem, assuming you
# want the data in a new list of just the strings
desiredOutput = [None] * len(output) # create empty list of same length
for i in range(0, len(output)): # loop over array
    desiredOutput[i] = output[i][0] # [0] needed to access the first element of each tuple

>>> print(desiredOutput)
['apple', 'orange', 'banana']

Upvotes: 0

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