[Tutor] max(len(item)) for cols

[János Juhász]

Thanks Max,

it is sort, but it gives back the max(len(item)) for the rows

> I have a 2D array:
>
>>>> [['1', '2 ', '3    '], ['longer     ', 'longer    ', 'sort']]
>>>>
>
>
> How can I  get what is the max(len(item)) for the columns ?
> I would like to get a list with the max_col_width values.
>
> I hope that, it can wrote with some nice list comprehension, but I
> can't do
> that :(

Here is the array:

[['1',             '2 ',         '3   '],
 [ 'longer    ','longer    ','sort']
]

it is len(item) for that:
[[ 1,   2,  3],
 [ 10,10, 4]
]

I would have that is the next:
(10,10,4)
or
[10,10,4]

As I remeneber it is somewhere in numpy, but I am not sure.
I would like to have it simply.


Yours sincerely,
______________________________
János Juhász



                                                                                                                       
                 Max Noel                                                                                              
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On Jun 17, 2005, at 11:58, János Juhász wrote:

>
> Dear Guys,
>
> I have a 2D array:
>
>>>> [['1', '2 ', '3    '], ['longer     ', 'longer    ', 'sort']]
>>>>
>
>
> How can I  get what is the max(len(item)) for the columns ?
> I would like to get a list with the max_col_width values.
>
> I hope that, it can wrote with some nice list comprehension, but I
> can't do
> that :(


 >>> a = [[1, 2], [1, 2, 3], [1, 2, 3, 4], [1]]
 >>> max(len(item) for item in a)
4

     If you're running Python 2.3 or lower, add brackets in the last
line:
 >>> max([len(item) for item in a])
4


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