Splitting a list

[Michael J. Fromberger]

In article <mailman.2673.1093960462.5135.python-list at python.org>,
 "Ian Sparks" <Ian.Sparks at etrials.com> wrote:

> string.split() is very useful, but what if I want to split a list of integers 
> on some element value?
> 
>  e.g. :
> 
> >> l = [1,2,3,-1,4,5,-1,8,9]
> >> l.split(-1)
> >> [[1,2,3],[4,5],[8,9]]
> 
> Here's my hideous first pass :
> 
> >> [[int(z) for z in x.split(',') if z] for x in ','.join([str(a) for a in 
> >> l]).split('-1')]
> >> [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5], [8, 9]]
> 
> When I see code like that I just know I've missed something obvious....

How about this?

  def split_list(L, brk):
    last = -1
    out = []
    
    for pos in [ x for (x, y) in enumerate(L) if y == brk ]:
      out.append(L[last + 1 : pos])
      last = pos
    
    out.append(L[last + 1:])
    return out

-M

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Michael J. Fromberger             | Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sting/  | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA