Is a merge interval function available?

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Feb 10, 3:23 pm, Peng Yu <pengyu... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering there is already a function in python library that can
> merge intervals. For example, if I have the following intervals ('['
> and ']' means closed interval as inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(mathematics)#Excluding_the_end...)
>
> [1, 3]
> [2, 9]
> [10,13]
> [11,12]
>
> I want to get the following merged intervals.
>
> [1,9]
> [10,13]
>
> Could somebody let me know if there is a function in the python
> library?

I vaguely recall a similar question a long time ago. Peng, is this a
homework assignment?

Perhaps we should add a standard module called "homework". It can have
functions for all the different homework assignments we see on
c.l.python. We can simply point people to this module and then can
include the code in their answers.