Using namedtuples field names for column indices in a list of lists

[breamoreboy at gmail.com]

On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 5:34:12 PM UTC, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2017-01-09 08:31, breamoreboy wrote:
> > On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 2:22:19 PM UTC, Tim Chase wrote:
> > > I usually wrap the iterable in something like
> > > 
> > >   def pairwise(it):
> > >     prev = next(it)
> > >     for thing in it:
> > >       yield prev, thing
> > >       prev = thing
> > 
> > Or from
> > https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools-recipes:-
> > 
> > def pairwise(iterable):
> >     "s -> (s0,s1), (s1,s2), (s2, s3), ..."
> >     a, b = tee(iterable)
> >     next(b, None)
> >     return zip(a, b)
> > 
> > This and many other recipes are available in the more-itertools
> > module which is on pypi. 
> 
> Ah, helpful to not have to do it from scratch each time.  Also, I see
> several others that I've coded up from scratch (particularly the
> partition() and first_true() functions).
> 
> I usually want to make sure it's tailored for my use cases. The above
> pairwise() is my most common use case, but I occasionally want N-wise
> pairing

def ntuplewise(iterable, n=2):
    args = tee(iterable, n)
    loops = n - 1
    while loops:
        for _ in range(loops):
            next(args[loops], None)
        loops -= 1
    return zip(*args)

> 
>   s -> (s0,s1,…sN), (s1,s2,…S{N+1}), (s2,s3,…s{N+2}), …
> 
> or to pad them out so either the leader/follower gets *all* of the
> values, with subsequent values being a padding value:
> 
>   # lst = [s0, s1, s2]
>   (s0,s1), (s1, s2), (s2, PADDING)

Use zip_longest instead of zip in the example code above.

>   # or
>   (PADDING, s0), (s0, s1), (s1, s2)

Haven't a clue off of the top of my head and I'm too darn tired to think about it :)

> 
> but it's good to have my common cases already coded & tested.
> 
> -tkc

Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.