[Tutor] Checking if value exist in a '2D array'
Chad Crabtree
flaxeater at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 17 16:36:22 CEST 2005
Kent Johnson wrote:
>Olli Rajala wrote:
>
>
>>Hi again,
>>
>>I have a '2D array', I mean a list inside a list ([[][],[][],...])
and
>>would need to check if the value exists in it. Of course I could do
a
>>for loop, but that just seem to be a little overkill, so is there
any
>>other way to do it? I have to check the first cell of every insider
>>list.
>>
>>
>
>With Python 2.4:
> >>> l= [ [1], [2,3], [4,5], [6]]
> >>> 2 in (i[0] for i in l)
>True
> >>> 3 in (i[0] for i in l)
>False
>
>with Python 2.3 use [i[0] for i in l] instead which is a little less
efficient.
>
The second case you show should be true because I believe that's what
he
asked for. Here is I believe the correct way to do this.
>>> l= [ [1], [2,3], [4,5], [6]]
>>> def isin(test,alist):
... return bool([x for x in alist if test in x])
...
>>> isin(2,l)
True
>>> isin(3,l)
True
>>> isin(10,l)
False
>>> def isin2(test,alist):
... for x in alist:
... if test in x:
... return True
... return False
>>> isin2(2,l)
True
>>> isin2(10,l)
False
>>>
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