Chunking sequential values in a list
Gerard Flanagan
grflanagan at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Jul 14 07:43:15 EDT 2006
David Hirschfield wrote:
> I have this function:
>
> def sequentialChunks(l, stride=1):
> chunks = []
> chunk = []
> for i,v in enumerate(l[:-1]):
> v2 = l[i+1]
> if v2-v == stride:
> if not chunk:
> chunk.append(v)
> chunk.append(v2)
> else:
> if not chunk:
> chunk.append(v)
> chunks.append(chunk)
> chunk = []
> if chunk:
> chunks.append(chunk)
> return chunks
>
> Which takes a list of numerical values "l" and splits it into chunks
> where each chunk is sequential, where sequential means each value in a
> chunk is
> separated from the next by "stride".
>
> So sequentialChunks([1,2,3,5,6,8,12]) returns:
>
> [[1,2,3],[5,6],[8],[12]]
>
> I don't think the code above is the most efficient way to do this, but
> it is relatively clear. I tried fiddling with list-comprehension ways of
> accomplishing it, but kept losing track of things...so if anyone has a
> suggestion, I'd appreciate it.
>
Gerard wrote:
>see the groupby example here:
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/itertools-example.html
tweaking the example from the docs to take the stride into account:
def stride(length):
i = 0
while True:
yield i
i += length
def group(data,d=1):
for k, g in groupby(zip(stride(d),data), lambda (i,x):i-x):
yield map(operator.itemgetter(1), g)
data = [1,2,3, 5, 6, 8, 12,13,14]
print list( group( data,2 ) )
hth
Gerard
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