Python - Splitting up strings

[skaarr]

Teaching myself python and I've tried my best to solve figure this out but I can't see how it's done.

Using pygame


pygame.mouse.get_pos()

I get the mouse position on the pygame 'screen'.
This returns a pair of coordinates eg. (254, 43)

What I want to do is separate these two coordinates and but I can't figure out how I would do it using the basic string manipulation methods (especially as the values can be 1, 2 or 3 digits, meaning that the position of the data changes).

Any help much appreciated.

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I don't know much about pygame, but I'm assuming the value returned by that function is a tuple, not a string (check the documentation). If that's correct, you can just assign each element to a separate variable like this:


mouse_x, mouse_y = pygame.mouse.get_pos()


Edit - But to answer your question, this is one way to split a string like that:


pos = '(254,43)'
x, y = pos[1:-1].split(',')

[skaarr]

You're right it is a tuple. Thanks for the help, code does what I want it to now :)
Thanks for the string method as well.

[Can+~]

Also, tuples can be split in the arguments of a function, for instance:


mytuple = (9, 2)

# Function that multiplies two arguments
def multiply(first, second):

return first*second

# Break down tuple when calling
print multiply(*mytuple)

With that in mind, you can create a function that accepts an X and Y coordinate, and break the position on call:


dosomething("SomeArgument", *pygame.mouse.get_pos(), "Other argument")

Where the function "dosomething" prototype is something along the lines of:


dosomething(somestring, x, y, otherstring)