[Tutor] Question about style

[Alan Gauld]

On 16/07/14 12:49, Jose Amoreira wrote:
> Hello
> I wrote a function that, given a list of numbers, finds clusters of
> values by proximity and returns a reduced list containing the centers of
> these clusters. However, I find it rather unclear. I would appreciate
> any comments on how pythonic my function is and suggestions to improve
> its readability.

Just throwing this idea in without really thinking about it...
Would itertools.groupby work?

It takes a sorted collection and groups the items found based on a key 
function. If the key function deemed two items identical if they were 
within distance X of each other then groupby might help.

The itertools functions are generally space efficient and
therefore good for large volumes of data.

Just a thought.

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