List transpose method

[Gerhard Häring]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Gerhard Häring wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:42:23AM +1100, Tom Harris wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Suppose I have a list like ((1,2), (3,4), (5,6)). Can some functional guru
> > tell me a one liner to transpose this to the form ((1,3,5),(2,4,6))? I can
> > only come up with an ugly multiliner.
> 
> I guess any single-liner will be obfuscated Python and not necessarily
> any more efficient.
> 
> If you need such things often, I'd suggest you take a look at Numeric
> Python. It contains many functions for matrices.
> 
> Interesting problem nevertheless ...

This is my ugly version with list comprehensions. I'm looking forward to
seeing better ones :-)

# Fun with list comprehensions

def transpose(m):
    n = len(m)
    return [[m[j][i] for i in range(len(m[0])) for j in range(n)][k*n:k*n+n] for k in range(len(m[0]))]

l = ((1,2), (3,4), (5,6))
print l
print transpose(l)

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