[portland] Still Having List/Tuple Problems

[Dylan Reinhardt]

Another approach to add to the pile:

>>> my_tuples = [('A',1),('A',2), ('A',3), ('A',4), ('B',1), ('B',2),
('B',3), ('B',4)]
>>> grouper = {}
>>> for left, right in my_tuples:
...         grouper.setdefault(left, []).append(right)
...

now you have a dict with values groped by keys, as shown below...

>>> for key in grouper.keys():
...        print key
...        for value in grouper[key]:
...             print '\t%s' % value
...
A
	1
	2
	3
	4
B
	1
	2
	3
	4


HTH,

Dylan



On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    I have a mental block on understanding just how to index a list of tuples
>  so I can extract the data in an orderly fashion.
>
>    The list looks like this: [(A,1),(A,2), ... (A,8),(B,1),(B,2), ...
>  (B,8),(C,1),(C2), ... (C,8)]
>
>    What I want to do is extract all tuples grouped by the first element, then
>  list the associated second elements). That is,
>  A
>         1
>         2
>         ...
>         8
>
>  B
>         1
>         2
>         ...
>         8
>  etc.
>
>    Referencing list[0] returns the first tuple; list[0][0] returns the first
>  item in the first tuple; but I cannot cycle through the three first items
>  extracting the second items associated with each.
>
>    I've looked at my books and previous threads here, but I'm just not
>  getting how this is done. I've played with list comprehensions, zip, and
>  other tools without getting the proper syntax or results I need. Don't know
>  why the answer keeps eluding me, but it does.
>
>  Rich
>
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