Identify runs in list

[skorpio11 at gmail.com]

On Oct 3, 10:36 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:21 PM, skorpi... at gmail.com <skorpi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I have a data structure in a list as in: [0 0 0 3 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0
> > 5 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 4]
>
> > I would like to extract three list from this data:
>
> > 1) runsOfZero: [3 4 5]
> > 2) runsOfNonZero: [3 8 4]
> > 3) SumOfRunsOfNonZero: [8 17 16]
>
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated
>
> Since this sounds like homework, I won't give actual code, but here's
> a gameplan:
>
> 1. Split the list into sublists based on where the runs of zeros stop and start.
> 2. Categorize the sublists and place them into lists-of-lists based on
> whether they have nonzero entries. To do the categorization, you'll
> have to iterate over the original list and track how many previous 0s
> you've seen consecutively.
> 3. Use len() on the nonzero lists to get their length; puts the
> results into a list (runsOfNonZero)
> 4. Use sum() on the nonzero lists to get their sums, and put the
> results into another list (SumOfRunsOfNonZero)
> 5. Use len() on the all-zero lists to get their length and put the
> results into a list (runsOfZero)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> --http://blog.rebertia.com

Thanks Chris, Not homework but self learning.  Also, forgot to mention
that I only count runs greater than 3 (zeros).  I will now look over
your suggestions. Thanks again