List Comprehension Question: One to Many Mapping?

beginner zyzhu2000 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 01:44:50 EDT 2007


On Aug 24, 12:41 am, Davo <davb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 9:24 pm, beginner <zyzhu2... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi All,
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> > How do I map a list to two lists with list comprehension?
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> > For example, if I have x=[ [1,2], [3,4] ]
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> > What I want is a new list of list that has four sub-lists:
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> > [[1,2], [f(1), f(2)], [3,4], [f(3), f(4)]]
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> > [1,2] is mapped to [1,2] and [f(1), f(2)] and [3,4] is mapped to
> > [3,4], [f(3), f(4)].
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> > I just can't find any way to do that with list comprension. I ended up
> > using a loop (untested code based on real code):
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> > l=[]
> > for y in x:
> >    l.append(y)
> >    l.append([f(z) for z in y])
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> > Thanks,
> > Geoffrey
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> This may be what you want:
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> l = [[y, [f(z) for z in y]] for y in x]
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> But It's a bit dense.  How about:
> l=[]
> for y in x:
>     Fy = [f(z) for z in y]
>     l.extend([y, Fy])
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> -- David- Hide quoted text -
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This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.




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