joining strings question

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

patrick.waldo at gmail.com a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I have some data with some categories, titles, subtitles, and a link
> to their pdf and I need to join the title and the subtitle for every
> file and divide them into their separate groups.
> 
> So the data comes in like this:
> 
> data = ['RULES', 'title','subtitle','pdf',
> 'title1','subtitle1','pdf1','NOTICES','title2','subtitle2','pdf','title3','subtitle3','pdf']
> 
> What I'd like to see is this:
> 
> [RULES', 'title subtitle','pdf', 'title1 subtitle1','pdf1'],
> ['NOTICES','title2 subtitle2','pdf','title3 subtitle3','pdf'], etc...

I don't know where your data come from, but the data structure is 
obviously wrong. It should at least be a list of tuples, ie:

data = [
     ('RULES', [
          ('title', 'subtitle', 'pdf'),
          ('title1', 'subtitle1', 'pdf1')
          ]
     ),
     ('NOTICES',[
         ('title2','subtitle2','pdf',)
         ('title3','subtitle3','pdf')
         ]
     ),
]


> I've racked my brain for a while about this and I can't seem to figure
> it out.  Any ideas would be much appreciated.

If possible, fix the code generating the dataset. Any other solution 
will be at best a dirty - and brittle - hack.