coursesa课程 Python 3 programming Tuple Assignment with Unpacking

If you remember, the .items() dictionary method produces a sequence of tuples. Keeping this in mind, we have provided you a dictionary called pokemon. For every key value pair, append the key to the list p_names, and append the value to the list p_number. Do not use the .keys() or .values() methods.

pokemon = {'Rattata': 19, 'Machop': 66, 'Seel': 86, 'Volbeat': 86, 'Solrock': 126}
p_names = list()
p_number = list()
for pok in pokemon.items():
    p_names.append(pok[0])
    p_number.append(pok[1])
print(p_names)
print(p_number)

The .items() method produces a sequence of key-value pair tuples. With this in mind, write code to create a list of keys from the dictionary track_medal_counts and assign the list to the variable name track_events. Do NOT use the .keys() method.

track_medal_counts = {'shot put': 1, 'long jump': 3, '100 meters': 2, '400 meters': 2, '100 meter hurdles': 3, 'triple jump': 3, 'steeplechase': 2, '1500 meters': 1, '5K': 0, '10K': 0, 'marathon': 0, '200 meters': 0, '400 meter hurdles': 0, 'high jump': 1}
track_events = list()
for track_medal in track_medal_counts.items():
    track_events.append(track_medal[0])
print(track_events)

It will cause an error, because the function add is expecting two parameters, but you’re only passing one parameter (a tuple). If only there was a way to tell python to unpack that tuple and use the first element to assign to x and the second to y.

def add(x, y):
    return x + y

print(add(3, 4))
z = (5, 4)
print(add(*z)) # this line will cause the values to be unpacked