Title: Unpacking A Tuple
Slug: unpacking_a_tuple
Summary: Unpacking A Tuple in Python.
Date: 2016-01-23 12:00
Category: Python
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

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Create List Of Tuples



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# Create a list of tuples where the first and second element of each 
# super is the first last names, respectively
soldiers = [('Steve', 'Miller'), ('Stacy', 'Markov'), ('Sonya', 'Matthews'), ('Sally', 'Mako')]

Unpack Tuples



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# For the second element for each tuple in soldiers,
for _, last_name in soldiers:
    # print the second element
    print(last_name)









    



Miller
Markov
Matthews
Mako