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| Date | 2011-08-21 01:03 +1000 |
|---|---|
| From | John O'Hagan <research@johnohagan.com> |
| Subject | Re: Compare tuples of different lenght |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
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On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
Jurgens de Bruin <debruinjj@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a list of tuples:
>
> [(2,),(12,13),(2,3,4),(8,),(5,6),(7,8,9),]
>
> I would like to compare all the tuples to each other and if one
> element if found two tuples the smallest tuples is removed from the
> list.
[...]
This should work:
def long_match(tuples):
sorted_tuples = sorted(tuples, key=len)
for n, t in enumerate(sorted_tuples):
for s in sorted_tuples[n + 1:]:
if len(s) > len(t) and any(i in s for i in t):
tuples.remove(t)
break
return tuples
Regards,
John
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Compare tuples of different lenght Jurgens de Bruin <debruinjj@gmail.com> - 2011-08-20 01:25 -0700
Re: Compare tuples of different lenght Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-08-20 01:45 -0700
Re: Compare tuples of different lenght Jurgens de Bruin <debruinjj@gmail.com> - 2011-08-20 01:54 -0700
Re: Compare tuples of different lenght Jurgens de Bruin <debruinjj@gmail.com> - 2011-08-20 02:00 -0700
Re: Compare tuples of different lenght Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-20 20:17 +1000
Re: Compare tuples of different lenght Jurgens de Bruin <debruinjj@gmail.com> - 2011-08-20 03:47 -0700
Re: Compare tuples of different lenght Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-08-20 13:56 +0200
Re: Compare tuples of different lenght John O'Hagan <research@johnohagan.com> - 2011-08-21 01:03 +1000
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