list to table

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* jay:
> 
> I have a long list of data of associations between values with a value
> to that association as follows..
> 
> (var) to (var) = (var) hits
> A B 1
> B A 1
> A B 3
> B A 3
> A C 7
> C A 2
> 
> And need to build a table as follows that accumulates the above:
> 
> row is (from)
> column is (to)
> 
>    A B C
> A 0 4 7
> B 4 0 0
> C 2 0 0
> 
> Just can't seam to figure out how to manage this programatically.

You're not very clear on what A, B and C are. Assuming that they're constants 
that denote unique values you can do something like

<code>
table = dict()
for k1, k2, n in list:
     position = (k1, k2)
     if position not in table:
         table[position] = n
     else:
         table[position] += n
</code>

Disclaimer: I'm a Python newbie so there may be some much easier way...


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf