Cycle around a sequence
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Thu Feb 9 03:36:30 EST 2012
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I'm looking at a way of cycling around a sequence i.e. starting at some
> given location in the middle of a sequence and running to the end before
> coming back to the beginning and running to the start place. About the
> best I could come up with is the following, any better ideas for some
> definition of better?
You could use a deque instead of a list and .rotate() that:
>>> from collections import deque
>>> d = deque(range(10))
>>> d.rotate(-4)
>>> d
deque([4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3])
>
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> >>> from itertools import chain
> >>> a=range(10)
> >>> g = chain((a[i] for i in xrange(4, 10, 1)), (a[i] for i in
> >>> xrange(4))) for x in g: print x,
> ...
> 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
> >>>
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