Sorting things into bins

[Sue Giller]

Jason,

While I was hoping to not have to iterate thru the list, this recipe is 
fine for my needs.  I also learned about the .setdefault method - 
thanks!

On 12 Dec 01, at 19:00, Jason Orendorff wrote:

> > Is there a quick and simple way to sort a set of values (strings in
> > this case) into a set of bins, based on a subset of the characters
> > in the string?
> 
> mylist = ['0101', '0102', '0103', '0201', '0202', '0203']
> mybins = {}
> for s in mylist:
>     bin = s[-2:]
>     mybins.setdefault(bin, []).append(s)
> print mybins