[portland] Iterating Through Tuples In A List

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Feb 15 22:00:22 CET 2008


On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, jason kirtland wrote:

> the groupby function in itertools is one way:
>
> rows = [('HabitatComplexity',2,1,'Decay S-Curve'),
>         ('HabitatComplexity',2,2,'Growth S-Curve'),
>         ('SpecialConcern',3,1,'Decay S-Curve'),
>         ('SpecialConcern',3,2,'Bell Curve'),
>         ('SpecialConcern',3,3,'Growth S-Curve'),
>         ('Variety',2,1,'Decay S-Curve'),
>         ('Variety',2,2,'Growth S-Curve'),]

> from operator import itemgetter
> from itertools import groupby
>
> for component, grouped in groupby(rows, key=itemgetter(0)):
>     print component
>     for row in grouped:
>         print "\t%s" % row[3]

Jason,

   This looks more elegant and maintainable that what I was doing. I'll read
about itertools and give this a try, too.

Thank you,

Rich

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