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Re: Dealing with Lists

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What you're asking is a Ragged Hierarchy.

On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 5:08:45 PM UTC-4, stas poritskiy wrote:
> Greetings to all!
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> i ran into a little logic problem and trying to figure it out.
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> my case is as follows:
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> i have a list of items each item represents a Group 
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> i need to create a set of nested groups,
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> so, for example:
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> myGroups = ["head", "neck", "arms", "legs"]
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> i need to get them to be represented like this:
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> (if you can imaging a folder structure)
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> head
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>   |_> neck
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>         |_> arms
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>               |_>legs
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> and so on until i hit the last element.
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> what i thought would work (but don't know really how to advance here) is:
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>     def createVNTgroups(self, groupsData):
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>         #function recieves the LIST of group elements, INDEX0 is always the
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>         #MAIN-ROOT of the tree
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>         for i in range(len(groupsData)):
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>             print groupsData[i]
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>             for q in range(1, len(groupsData)):
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>                 print groupsData[q]
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> could someone give me a hint?
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> thanks in advance!

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Dealing with Lists stas poritskiy <stascrash@gmail.com> - 2013-09-10 14:08 -0700
  Re: Dealing with Lists stas poritskiy <stascrash@gmail.com> - 2013-09-10 14:10 -0700
  Re: Dealing with Lists matt.komyanek@gmail.com - 2013-09-10 14:31 -0700
  Re: Dealing with Lists Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-10 21:51 +0000
    Re: Dealing with Lists stas poritskiy <stascrash@gmail.com> - 2013-09-10 15:11 -0700
      Re: Dealing with Lists Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-10 18:30 -0400
      Re: Dealing with Lists Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-10 22:32 +0000
  Re: Dealing with Lists Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-11 02:14 +0000
    Re: Dealing with Lists Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-11 02:24 +0000
      Re: Dealing with Lists Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-11 03:13 +0000
        Re: Dealing with Lists stas poritskiy <stascrash@gmail.com> - 2013-09-10 20:44 -0700
        Re: Dealing with Lists stas poritskiy <stascrash@gmail.com> - 2013-09-10 20:52 -0700
          Re: Dealing with Lists stas poritskiy <stascrash@gmail.com> - 2013-09-11 07:47 -0700
            Re: Dealing with Lists stas poritskiy <stascrash@gmail.com> - 2013-09-11 07:57 -0700
              Re: Dealing with Lists Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-09-11 18:17 +0200

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