flatten sequences in a dictionary

Paul Hankin paul.hankin at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 08:22:55 EST 2008


On Jan 9, 1:16 pm, ajcpp... at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I wondering if someone could give me a pointer. I have a dictionary
> with the following structure:
>
> testDict = dict(foo=((1,2,3),(1,4,3)), bar=((3,2,1),(9,8,7,)),
> mumble=((1,2,3),))
>
> I am trying to create a list of the the 3 element tuples using
> itertools (just for a bit of fun). I'm trying this:
>
> list(itertools.chain(testDict.itervalues())

Close! Try:
list(itertools.chain(*testDict.itervalues())

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Paul Hankin



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