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Re: What sort of data structure to use?

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Date	Wed, 3 Jun 2015 11:24:59 +0200
Subject	Re: What sort of data structure to use?
From	David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.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:
>
>
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> # File Set A
>
> pathA = ‘pathA’
>
> fileListA = [‘fileA1.txt’, ‘fileA2.txt’]
>
>
>
> # File Set B
>
> pathB = ‘pathB’
>
> fileListB = [‘fileB1.txt’, ‘fileB2.txt’, ‘fileB3.txt’]
>
>
>
> myFunc1(pathA, fileListA)
>
> myFunc2(pathA, fileListA)
>
>
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> myFunc1(pathB, fileListB)
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> myFunc2(pathB, fileListB)
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>
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> 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.
>
>
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> 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, for
> each set, there is an arbitrary number of files?
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> David
>
>
>
>
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And if you really want to link the path to the list of files, you
could define an object FileList (trivially) implementing the iterator
protocol.

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Re: What sort of data structure to use? David Palao <dpalao.python@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 11:24 +0200

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