Grouping pairs - suggested tools

[Astley Le Jasper]

Thanks all. I was playing around with this and came up with another
solution using dictionaries (... comfort zone ...!!)


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from operator import itemgetter

def group_stuff(data):

    group_dic = {}
    group_id = 0

    for line in data:
        i = 0
        for ref in line:
            if group_dic.get(ref) is None:
                if group_dic.get(line[1-i]) is not None:
                    group_id = group_dic[line[1-i]]
                else:
                    group_id +=1
                group_dic[ref] = group_id
            i+=1

    group_list = []
    for id, group in sorted(group_dic.items(), key=itemgetter(1,0)):
        group_list.append((group, id))

    return group_list

if __name__ == '__main__':
    data = [('a','b'),('a','c'),('a','d'),('b','c'),('b','d'),
('c','d'),('e','f'),('e','g'),('f','g'),('h','i')]
    grouped = group_stuff(data)
    print grouped

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Output: [(1, 'a'), (1, 'b'), (1, 'c'), (1, 'd'), (2, 'e'), (2, 'f'),
(2, 'g'), (3, 'h'), (3, 'i')]