Lining Up and PaddingTwo Similar Lists

[castironpi]

On Aug 28, 10:50 pm, "W. eWatson" <notval... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Maybe there's some function like zip or map that does this. If not, it's
> probably fairly easy to do with push and pop. I'm just checking to see if
> there's not some known simple single function that does what I want. Here's
> what I'm trying to do.
>
> I have a list dat like (assume the items are strings even thought I'm
> omitting quotes.):
> [a.dat, c.dat, g.dat, k.dat, p.dat]
>
> I have another list called txt that looks like:
> [a.txt, b.txt, g.txt, k.txt r.txt, w.txt]
>
> What I need is to pair up items with the same prefix and use "None", or some
> marker, to indicate the absence of the opposite item. That is, in non-list
> form, I want:
> a.dat a.txt
> None  b.txt
> c.dat None
> g.dat g.txt
> k.dat k.txt
> p.dat  None
> None  r.txt
> None  w.txt
>
> Ultimately, what I'm doing is to find the missing member of pairs.
> --
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This gets you your list.  What do you mean by 'missing member of
pairs'?  If you mean, 'set of elements that appear in both' or 'set
that appears in one but not both', you can short circuit it at line
14.

-warning, spoiler-

dat= ['a.dat', 'c.dat', 'g.dat', 'k.dat', 'p.dat']
dat.sort()
txt= ['a.txt', 'b.txt', 'g.txt', 'k.txt', 'r.txt', 'w.txt']
txt.sort()
import os.path
datD= {}
for d in dat:
    r,_= os.path.splitext( d )
    datD[ r ]= d
txtD= {}
for d in txt:
    r,_= os.path.splitext( d )
    txtD[ r ]= d
both= sorted( list( set( datD.keys() )| set( txtD.keys() ) ) )

print datD
print txtD
print both

for i, x in enumerate( both ):
    both[ i ]= datD.get( x, None ), txtD.get( x, None )

print both

OUTPUT:

{'a': 'a.dat', 'p': 'p.dat', 'c': 'c.dat', 'k': 'k.dat', 'g': 'g.dat'}
{'a': 'a.txt', 'b': 'b.txt', 'g': 'g.txt', 'k': 'k.txt', 'r': 'r.txt',
'w': 'w.t
xt'}
['a', 'b', 'c', 'g', 'k', 'p', 'r', 'w']
[('a.dat', 'a.txt'), (None, 'b.txt'), ('c.dat', None), ('g.dat',
'g.txt'), ('k.d
at', 'k.txt'), ('p.dat', None), (None, 'r.txt'), (None, 'w.txt')]