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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:03:51 +0000
Subject: Re: iterating over list with one mising value
From: Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
To: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
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On 7 February 2012 22:57, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:37:20 +0000, Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>Your list is flat so the unpacking fails. =C2=A0For it to work, you need
>>your list to be of the form:
>>
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0wordFreq2 =3D [('with', 3), ('which', 1), ('were', 2), ('we=
ll', 1)]
>>
>>Then it will work. =C2=A0The quickest way to transform your list to the
>>required form is something like this:
>>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Well... From my viewpoint, the quickest way is=
 to load the list
> correctly in the first place... Where does this list come from? If it's
> a file of

Of course, but how much guessing can you do in a reply?  The OP
provided a Python list, that's what I used.

--=20
Arnaud