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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 11:22:33 +0200
Subject: Re: What sort of data structure to use?
From: David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com>
To: David Aldrich <David.Aldrich@emea.nec.com>
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2015-06-03 10:19 GMT+02:00 David Aldrich <David.Aldrich@emea.nec.com>:
> Hi
>
>
>
> I have written a Python utility that performs a certain activity on some
> predefined sets of files.  Here is the outline of what I have written:
>
>
>
> # File Set A
>
> pathA =3D =E2=80=98pathA=E2=80=99
>
> fileListA =3D [=E2=80=98fileA1.txt=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98fileA2.txt=E2=80=99=
]
>
>
>
> # File Set B
>
> pathB =3D =E2=80=98pathB=E2=80=99
>
> fileListB =3D [=E2=80=98fileB1.txt=E2=80=99, =E2=80=98fileB2.txt=E2=80=99=
, =E2=80=98fileB3.txt=E2=80=99]
>
>
>
> myFunc1(pathA, fileListA)
>
> myFunc2(pathA, fileListA)
>
>
>
> myFunc1(pathB, fileListB)
>
> myFunc2(pathB, fileListB)
>
>
>
> I want to add more file sets, so I really want to add the sets to a list =
and
> iterate over the list, calling myFunc1 & myFunc2 for each item.
>
>
>
> My question is: what sort of data structure could I use to organise this,
> given that I want to associate a set of files with each path and that, fo=
r
> each set, there is an arbitrary number of files?
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> David
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Hi,
What about a for loop?
paths =3D [pathA, pathB, pathC]
functions =3D (myFunc1, myFunc2)
file_lists =3D [fileListA, fileListB,fileListC]
for path, file_list in zip(paths, file_lists):
    for f in functions:
        f(path, file_list)

Best