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[Terry Reedy]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message
news:PsO49.43097$7n5.8176 at sccrnsc01...
> Terry Reedy:
> > Another advertisement for the benefit of breaking long,
complicated
> > expressions into multiple lines and using temp variables ;-)

> Oh, but they're fun  ;-)
>
> >>> y = [1,0,1,1,0,0,1,0]
> >>> [map(int, list(x)) for x in ''.join(map(str,y)).split('0')]
> [[1], [1, 1], [], [1], []]

This one is cute, instructive, and short and clear enough to grasp,
even though it only works for positie single-digit numbers.

>>> y=[22,0,33]
>>> [map(int, list(x)) for x in ''.join(map(str,y)).split('0')]
[[2, 2], [3, 3]]

As to the general problem.  Here is a clear, comprehensible version of
the OPs lambda, with the added option of keeping or discarding empty
slices.

def seqsplit(seq, splitpoint = lambda x:x==' ', keepnull = False):
  seqlen = len(seq)
  splits = [i for i in range(seqlen) if splitpoint(seq[i])]
  slices = zip([-1]+splits, splits+[seqlen])
  return [seq[start+1:end] for start,end in slices if start+1 != end
or keepnull]

Much of the complication of the OP's version comes from using list
comprehensions as a substitute for using assignment statements (for
the two intermediate values seqlen and splits that are later used
twice).  Ugh!   If I used single char identifiers, seqsplit would also
be shorter than the lambda.

>>> seqsplit([1,0,1,1,0,0,1,0], lambda x: x == 0)
[[1], [1, 1], [1]]
>>> seqsplit([1,0,1,1,0,0,1,0], lambda x: x == 0, keepnull=True)
[[1], [1, 1], [], [1], []]


Terry J. Reedy