List mapping?

[Hakan Nilsson]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Robert Cragie wrote:

> > Try this:
> > mylist = ['/a','1','/b','2','/c','3']
> > map(lambda x: reduce(lambda a, b: (a,b), mylist[x:x+2]), range(0,
> > len(mylist), 2))
> 
> Sorry, forgot to assign...
> 
> mylist = ['/a','1','/b','2','/c','3']
> tuplist = map(lambda x: reduce(lambda a, b: (a,b), mylist[x:x+2]), range(0,
> len(mylist), 2))
> 
> Robert Cragie
> 
> 

Howcome you use reduce at all?

Works fine with just doing 

tuplist = map(lambda x: (mylist[x], mylist[x+1]), range(0, len(mylist),
2))

Reduce has many uses, but I can't see why this should be one of them ;o)

(as mentioned, getopts would be even better though;)

/H

Håkan Nilsson                   NetGuide Scandinavia
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