Finding overlapping times...

Shane Geiger sgeiger at ncee.net
Thu Dec 13 19:32:08 EST 2007


You should give a more real data set (maybe 20 various pairs so that all
scenarios can be seen) and the output you want.



Breal wrote:
> I have a list that looks like the following
> [(100000, 100010), (100005, 100007), (100009, 100015)]
>
> I would like to be able to determine which of these overlap each
> other.  So, in this case, tuple 1 overlaps with tuples 2 and 3.  Tuple
> 2 overlaps with 1.  Tuple 3 overlaps with tuple 1.
>
> In my scenario I would have hundreds, if not thousands of these
> ranges.  Any nice pythonic way to do this?
>
> Thanks.
>   


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