How to generically transform a list?

[John Lenton]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:50:26PM +0200, Marco Aschwanden wrote:
> 
> Suppose you have a list of lists:
> 
> theList = [['a',1,11,'aa'], ['b',2,22,'bb'],['c',3,33,'cc']]
> 
> I would like to have a GENERIC way how to turn this list of list into 
> another list of list.
> - A user can choose which columns she wants
> - A user can select the order of the columns
> 
> For example:
> The user wants columns: 1,2
> The user wants it to be ordered: 2,1
> 
> A non generic approach would maybe do the following:
> 
> >>>theList = [['a',1,11,'aa'], ['b',2,22,'bb'],['c',3,33,'cc']]
> >>>new_list = [[row[2], row[1]] for row in theList]
> >>>new_list
> [[11, 1], [22, 2], [33, 3]]
> 
> I am sure there must be a rather elegant generic approach, which is 
> lurking somewhere to be realeased.

mm... maybe I'm missing something, but

    >>> theList = [['a',1,11,'aa'], ['b',2,22,'bb'],['c',3,33,'cc']]
    >>> wanted = 2,1
    >>> [[i[j] for j in wanted] for i in theList]
    [[11, 1], [22, 2], [33, 3]]

seems to me to be what you want.


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