disgrating a list

[George Sakkis]

jwaixs wrote:

> Thank you for all your reply and support. Neil's fits the most to me. I
> shrinked it to this function:
>
> def flatten(x):
>     for i in range(len(x)):
>         if isinstance(x[i], list):
>             x[i:i+1] = x[i]
>
> Thank you all again. If someone could find even a cuter way, I'd like
> to see that way.
>
> Noud Aldenhoven

The recursive generator implementation seems cuter (and I guess more
efficient) to me; YMMV:

def flatten(x):
    if not isinstance(x,list):
        yield x
    else:
        for elem in x:
            for subelem in flatten(elem):
                yield subelem


Or if you want to modify the argument list in place, as in Neil's
solution:

def flatten_in_place(x):
    x[:] = flatten(x)


George