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Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements

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On Sunday, September 30, 2012 12:15:57 AM UTC+8, Thomas Bach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> say we have the following:
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> 
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> >>> data = [('foo', 1), ('foo', 2), ('bar', 3), ('bar', 2)]
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> 
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> is there a way to code a function iter_in_blocks such that
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> 
> 
> >>> result = [ list(block) for block in iter_in_blocks(data) ]
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> 
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> evaluates to
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> 
> 
> >>> result = [ [('foo', 1), ('foo', 2)], [('bar', 3), ('bar', 2)] ]
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> 
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> by _only_ _iterating_ over the list (caching all the elements sharing
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> the same first element doesn't count)?
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> I came up with the following
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> def iter_in_blocks(iterable):
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>     my_iter = iter(iterable)
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>     while True:
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>         first = next(my_iter)
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>         pred = lambda entry: entry[0] == first[0]
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>         def block_iter():
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>             yield first
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>             for entry in itertools.takewhile(pred, my_iter):
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>                 yield entry
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>         yield block_iter()
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> which does not work as itertools.takewhile consumes the first entry
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> not fulfilling the pred.
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> I currently have the intuition that the problem is not solvable
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> without using e.g. a global to pass something back to iter_in_blocks
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> from block_iter. Any other suggestions?
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> 
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> Regards,
> 
> 	Thomas Bach.

Your question seems vague to me. If you know you are storing 
only immutable tuples in a list, then the way to iterate is simple. 

For example: 

data = [('foo', 1), ('foo', 2), ('bar', 3), ('bar', 2)] 
# all tuples 

for item in data: 
    x1=item[0] # first entry in each tuple
    x2=item[1]
    print x1, x2 # or use yield in a function to iterate



 

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Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Thomas Bach <thbach@students.uni-mainz.de> - 2012-09-29 18:14 +0200
  Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-29 09:26 -0700
    Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Thomas Bach <thbach@students.uni-mainz.de> - 2012-09-29 18:44 +0200
  Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-30 17:58 -0700
    Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-01 09:19 +0100
      Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 09:12 -0700
        Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-02 17:44 +0100
          Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 20:21 -0700
          Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 20:21 -0700
        Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-10-03 03:58 +1000
          Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-03 00:57 +0000
            Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-10-02 18:11 -0700
              Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-03 01:24 +0000
                Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-10-02 18:42 -0700
        Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-10-02 19:35 +0100
        Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-10-02 14:59 -0400
      Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 09:12 -0700
      Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-10-02 13:54 -0700
      Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-10-02 13:54 -0700
  Re: Slicing iterables in sub-generators without loosing elements 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-09-30 17:58 -0700

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