Python: extract tuples with more than two elements from list

Question

Given this list of tuples:

l1=[(0, 90),
    (1, 532, 17),
    (2, 5080),
    (3, 2516, 94)]

How could I extract all those tuples that have more than two elements? In this case, the result would be:

l2=[(1, 532, 17),(3, 2516, 94)]

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 16 '17 at 22:31

2

Use a list comprehension and filter using len:

l2 = [tup for tup in l1 if len(tup) > 2]
print(l2)
# [(1, 532, 17), (3, 2516, 94)]

answered Feb 16 '17 at 22:31

Moses Koledoye

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '17 at 22:32

1

filter it with list comprehension:

l1=[(0, 90),
    (1, 532, 17),
    (2, 5080),
    (3, 2516, 94)]

l2 = [x for x in l1 if len(x)>2]

print(l2)

result:

[(1, 532, 17), (3, 2516, 94)]

answered Feb 16 '17 at 22:32

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