Explicitly select items from a list or tuple

Question

I have the following Python list (can also be a tuple):

myList = [\'foo\', \'bar\', \'baz\', \'quux\']

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Answer 1

>>> map(myList.__getitem__, (2,2,1,3))
('baz', 'baz', 'bar', 'quux')

You can also create your own List class which supports tuples as arguments to __getitem__ if you want to be able to do myList[(2,2,1,3)].