[Tutor] Iterable Understanding

[Wayne Werner]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Well... what I want to do is create a single, sorted list by merging a
> number of other sorted lists.
>
>
Just write your own merge:
(simplified and probably inefficient and first thing off the top of my head)

newlist = []
for x, y, z in zip(list1, list2, list3):
    if y > x < z:
        newlist.append(x)
    elif x > y < z:
        newlist.append(y)
    elif x > z < y:
        newlist.append(z)

I'm pretty sure that should work although it's untested.

HTH,
Wayne

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