[Baypiggies] Fwd: nested list help

[Zachary Collins]

Will this work?

import itertools
import operator

def magic_function(x):
    grouped_x = itertools.groupby(sorted(x), lambda l: l[0])
    return [ [k] + reduce(operator.add, (l[1:] for l in gs)) for k, gs
in grouped_x ]


x = [['NM100', 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], ['NM100', 10, 11, 12, 13], ['NM200', 15, 16, 17]]
print x
print magic_function(x)


On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
> Vikram,
>     From my experience with your previous posts, you're looking for an
> elegant and nice solution -- not just an "answer" (and I commend that!)
>  What I have below is an answer, not an elegant solution.
> Everyone else,
>    As a learning experience, I went through Julian's Snitow's suggestion on
> default dicts. What I have works -- however, what is "ugly" to me is trying
> to [].insert without getting a None... I have an ugly secondary outer list
> comprehension to get around that. It feels too hacky to me.
> I'd be very curious how someone fromt his group makes this better. I'll
> probably slap myself on the forehead when I see the better solution.
>
> from collections import defaultdict
> x=[['NM100', 3, 4, 5, 6, 7],
>    ['NM100', 10, 11, 12, 13],
>    ['NM200', 15, 16, 17]]
> d=defaultdict(list)
> for item in x:
>     d[item[0]].extend(item[1:])
> z = [ a for a, b in
>         [(y, y.insert(0, x))
>             for x, y in d.items() ]]
> for i in z:
>     print i
> lappy_adaptor> python vikram.py
> ['NM100', 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13]
> ['NM200', 15, 16, 17]
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Vikram K <kpguy1975 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Vikram K <kpguy1975 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Baypiggies] nested list help
>> To: Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com>
>>
>>
>> Hi Glen,
>>  the elements of the original list will never contain a duplicate element.
>> The numbers other than the NMID are actually representing exon coordinates
>> and the joining is being done to represent the fact that exons (or rather
>> exon coordinates) corresponding to the same NMID are joined together to
>> represent splicing during transcription from DNA to mRNA.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> To help define the problem, what behavior do you expect if the second
>>> element of your original list also contains a duplicate element. In this
>>> example, what result are you looking for if your second element was
>>> ['NM100', 7, 11, 12, 13]
>>>
>>> Glen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > Suppose i have this nested list:
>>> >
>>> > >>> x
>>> > [['NM100', 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], ['NM100', 10, 11, 12, 13], ['NM200', 15, 16,
>>> > 17]]
>>> > >>> for i in x:
>>> > ...   print i
>>> > ...
>>> > ['NM100', 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
>>> > ['NM100', 10, 11, 12, 13]
>>> > ['NM200', 15, 16, 17]
>>> > >>>
>>> >
>>> > how do i obtain from the above the following nested list:
>>> >
>>> > >>> z
>>> > [['NM100', 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13], ['NM200', 15, 16, 17]]
>>> > >>> for i in z:
>>> > ...   print i
>>> > ...
>>> > ['NM100', 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13]
>>> > ['NM200', 15, 16, 17]
>>> > >>>
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