Reference an Element in a List of Tuples

Question

Sorry in advance, but I\'m new to Python. I have a list of tuples, and I was wondering how I can reference, say, the first element of each tuple w

Answer 1

The code

my_list = [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
for t in my_list:
    print t

prints

(1, 2)
(3, 4)
(5, 6)

The loop iterates over my_list, and assigns the elements of my_list to t one after the other. The elements of my_list happen to be tuples, so t will always be a tuple. To access the first element of the tuple t, use t[0]:

for t in my_list:
    print t[0]

To access the first element of the tuple at the given index i in the list, you can use

print my_list[i][0]