How to format a tupled list in Python 2.7?

Question

I asked a previous question here and got a great answer: How to assign items in nested lists a variable automatically in Python 2.7? to do the following when it came to putting up an output:

Previous Question:

nList = [[0,0,0],[3,2,1]],\ [[]],\ [[100,1000,110]],\ [[0,0,0],[300,400,300],[300,400,720],[0,0,120],[100,0,1320],[30,500,1450]] 

I need to assign automatic variables to the items before each '\\'. for example, distance1 = [[0,0,0],[3,2,1]], distance2=[[]], distance3= [[100,1000,110]] etc. However, this needs to be automatic for each distance'n' rather than me taking indexes from mList and assigning them to variable distance'n

Now, I need to format the distanceN variables so that trying to print distance4 for example would give the output:

>>0 metres, 0 metres, 0 seconds
>>300 metres, 400 metres, 300 seconds
>>300 metres, 400 metres, 720 seconds
>>0 metres, 0 metres, 120 seconds
>>100 metres, 0 metres, 1320 seconds
>>30 metres, 500 metres, 1450 seconds

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

There is no need to convert nList into anything; not into named variables, not into a dictionary. It works fine as a tuple (incidentally it is not a list - it is a tuple of lists). You could name it distances instead.

distances = [[0,0,0],[3,2,1]], [[]], [[100,1000,110]], [[0,0,0],[300,400,300],[300,400,720],[0,0,120],[100,0,1320],[30,500,1450]]

# "distance4" accessed by index 3 in tuple
for distance in distances[3]:
    print '{} metres, {} metres, {} seconds'.format(*distance)

Output

0 metres, 0 metres, 0 seconds
300 metres, 400 metres, 300 seconds
300 metres, 400 metres, 720 seconds
0 metres, 0 metres, 120 seconds
100 metres, 0 metres, 1320 seconds
30 metres, 500 metres, 1450 seconds