Inserting while itterating

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Thomas Guettler wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Simple excerise:
>
>You have a sorted list of integers:
>l=[1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 12]
>
>and you should fill all gaps:
>
>result == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
>  
>
Well, here's the simplest one...
    if l:
        l[:] = range(l[0],l[-1])

but what you're probably looking for is (untested):

for x in range( len(l)-2, -1, -1 ):
    if l[x+1] != l[x]+1:
       l[x+1:x+1] = range(l[x]+1,l[x+1])

Enjoy,
Mike

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