Loop in a loop?

[George Sakkis]

On Jan 17, 12:25 pm, Paul Hankin <paul.han... at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 17, 4:38 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
>
> 42.desthuilli... at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com> wrote:
> > Now there are very certainly smart solutions using itertools, but the
> > one I cooked is way too ugly so I'll leave this to itertools masters !-)
>
> Here's my effort:
>
> from itertools import izip, islice, chain, repeat
>
> def padzip(*xs, **kw):
>     pad = kw.get('padding', None)
>     maxlen = max(len(x) for x in xs)
>     return islice(izip(*[chain(x, repeat(pad)) for x in xs]), maxlen)
>
> --
> Paul Hankin

And if the iterables don't necessarily support len(), here's a more
general solution:

from itertools import repeat

def izippad(*iterables, **kw):
    pad = kw.get('padding', None)
    next_pad = repeat(pad).next
    getnext = [iter(iterable).next for iterable in iterables]
    pending = size = len(iterables)
    while True:
        slice = [None] * size
        for i in xrange(size):
            try: slice[i] = getnext[i]()
            except StopIteration:
                pending -= 1
                if not pending: return
                getnext[i] = next_pad
                slice[i] = pad
        yield slice


George