A list comprehension to do this?...

[David Eppstein]

In article <3D88E4F5.B443918 at quartercase.com>,
 joe sixpack <joe.sixpack at quartercase.com> wrote:

> Is there a list comprehension or other 'cleaner' or 'prettier' way 
> to do the following:
> 
> >>> xx = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
> >>> ww = []
> >>> for i in range(0, len(xx), 2):
> 	ww.append((xx[i+1],xx[i]))
> 	
> >>> ww
> [(2, 1), (4, 3), (6, 5), (8, 7), (10, 9)]
> >>>
> 
> Thanks in advance...

It's not much different, but it can easily be done with a list comp:

>>> xx = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
>>> ww = [(xx[i+1],xx[i]) for i in range(0,len(xx),2)]
>>> ww
[(2, 1), (4, 3), (6, 5), (8, 7), (10, 9)]

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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