Better writing in python

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-10-24, Alexandre Badez <alexandre.badez at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just wondering, if I could write a in a "better" way this
> code
>
> lMandatory = []
> lOptional = []
> for arg in cls.dArguments:
>   if arg is True:
>     lMandatory.append(arg)
>   else:
>     lOptional.append(arg)
> return (lMandatory, lOptional)
>
> I think there is a better way, but I can't see how...

I don't think there's much improvement to be made. What are your
particular concerns? Is it too slow? Too verbose? Does it not
work correctly?

It appears to be an application of itertools.groupby, but that'll
almost certainly be less efficient. To use groupby, you have to
sort by your predicate, and build lists to save results. Your for
loop avoids the sorting.

Here's some instrumentality for ya:

from itertools import groupby
from operator import truth
from collections import defaultdict

result = defaultdict(list)
for k, g in groupby(sorted(cls.dArguments, key=truth), truth):
  result[k].extend(g)

I like your initial attempt better.

P.S. I didn't realize until working out this example that extend
could consume an iterator.

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