thanks for the excercise just figured out this - <div><br></div><div><div>#!/usr/bin/env python   </div><div>import sys        </div><div>sys.setrecursionlimit(2000)</div><div>                  </div><div>def flatten(l):   </div>
<div>  flattened = []  </div><div>  for i in l:     </div><div>    if type(i) == type([]):</div><div>      flattened += flatten(i)</div><div>    else:         </div><div>      flattened.append(i)</div><div>  return flattened                                                                                                                                                                                                   </div>
<div>                  </div><div>                  </div><div>if __name__=='__main__':</div><div>  p=[1,[2,3,4],[5,6,],9,[[11,12]]]</div><div>  print flatten(p)</div><div><br></div><div>But a google search will lead you to more elegant generic solutions :)</div>
<div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:46 PM, gopi krishna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dasarathulagopi@gmail.com">dasarathulagopi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi ,<br>    Anyone can pls help me in flattening the list.<br>if p is the my list which is defined below<br>p=[1,[2,3,4],[5,6,],9,[[11,12]]]<br>from the above how to get a list <br>as [1,2,3,4,5,6,9,11,12]<br>
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