Creating two lists out of tuple with occasional double value for one list

December 14, 2021

I am currently working with tuples in Python an came upon this problem:

I have a tuple that looks like this:

[("mother", ["Mutter"]), ("and", ["und"]), ("father", ["Vater"]), ("I", ["ich", "mich"]),("not", ["nicht"]), ("at", ["dort", "da"]), ("home", ["Haus", "Zuhause"]), ("now", ["jetzt"])]

i need to create two lists, one, where the englisch words are stored and one, where the German words are stored, but I don’t now how, since sometimes there are two German words for one English word.

Is there a nicer way than manually counting through the tuple and storing the words like that?

Thank you for your help!

>Solution :

Heres a quick and easy way to do it:

wordlist = [("mother", ["Mutter"]), ("and", ["und"]), ("father", ["Vater"]), ("I", ["ich", "mich"]),("not", ["nicht"]), ("at", ["dort", "da"]), ("home", ["Haus", "Zuhause"]), ("now", ["jetzt"])]

english = []
german = []

for pair in wordlist:
  english.append(pair[0])
  for item in pair[1]: german.append(item)

print(english)
print(german)