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Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile

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Subject Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile
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2012/12/4 Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I came across itertools.dropwhile only today, then shortly afterwards found Raymond Hettinger wondering, in 2007, whether to drop [sic] dropwhile and takewhile from the itertools module.
>
> Fate of itertools.dropwhile() and itertools.takewhile() - Python
> bytes.com
> http://bit.ly/Vi2PqP
>
> Almost nobody else of the 18 respondents seemed to be using them.
>
> And then 2 hours later, a use case came along. I think. Anyone have any better solutions?
>
> I have a file full of things like this:
>
> "CAPSICUM RED fresh from Queensland"
>
> Product names (all caps, at start of string) and descriptions (mixed case, to end of string) all muddled up in the same field. And I need to split them into two fields. Note that if the text had said:
>
> "CAPSICUM RED fresh from QLD"
>
> I would want QLD in the description, not shunted forwards and put in the product name. So (uncontrived) list comprehensions and regex's are out.
>
> I want to split the above into:
>
> ("CAPSICUM RED", "fresh from QLD")
>
> Enter dropwhile and takewhile. 6 lines later:
>
> from itertools import takewhile, dropwhile
> def split_product_itertools(s):
>     words = s.split()
>     allcaps = lambda word: word == word.upper()
>     product, description = takewhile(allcaps, words), dropwhile(allcaps, words)
>     return " ".join(product), " ".join(description)
>
>
> When I tried to refactor this code to use while or for loops, I couldn't find any way that felt shorter or more pythonic:
>
> (9 lines: using for)
>
> def split_product_1(s):
>     words = s.split()
>     product = []
>     for word in words:
>         if word == word.upper():
>             product.append(word)
>         else:
>             break
>     return " ".join(product), " ".join(words[len(product):])
>
>
> (12 lines: using while)
>
> def split_product_2(s):
>     words = s.split()
>     i = 0
>     product = []
>     while 1:
>         word = words[i]
>         if word == word.upper():
>             product.append(word)
>             i += 1
>         else:
>             break
>     return " ".join(product), " ".join(words[i:])
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Nick
> --
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Hi,
the regex approach doesn't actually seem to be very complex, given the
mentioned specification, e.g.

>>> import re
>>> re.findall(r"(?m)^([A-Z\s]+) (.+)$", "CAPSICUM RED fresh from QLD\nCAPSICUM RED fresh from Queensland")
[('CAPSICUM RED', 'fresh from QLD'), ('CAPSICUM RED', 'fresh from Queensland')]
>>>

(It might be necessary to account for some punctuation, whitespace etc. too.)

hth,
  vbr

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Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 05:57 -0800
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-04 14:23 +0000
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 06:47 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-04 15:17 +0000
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 15:31 +0100
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 07:24 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 22:08 +0100
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 07:24 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-04 18:26 +0000
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        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-04 20:17 +0000
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-04 15:44 -0500
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 17:17 -0800
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      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 13:29 +0000
        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 09:04 -0800
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-05 17:57 +0000
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 18:16 +0000
            Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 11:01 -0800
              Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 20:13 +0000
              Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 22:36 +0100
                Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-06 13:06 +0000
                Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 15:12 +0100
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