What sort of data structure to use?

[David Palao]

2015-06-03 10:19 GMT+02:00 David Aldrich <David.Aldrich at emea.nec.com>:
> Hi
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> I have written a Python utility that performs a certain activity on some
> predefined sets of files.  Here is the outline of what I have written:
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> # File Set A
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> pathA = ‘pathA’
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> fileListA = [‘fileA1.txt’, ‘fileA2.txt’]
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> # File Set B
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> pathB = ‘pathB’
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> fileListB = [‘fileB1.txt’, ‘fileB2.txt’, ‘fileB3.txt’]
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> myFunc1(pathA, fileListA)
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> myFunc2(pathA, fileListA)
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> myFunc1(pathB, fileListB)
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> myFunc2(pathB, fileListB)
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> I want to add more file sets, so I really want to add the sets to a list and
> iterate over the list, calling myFunc1 & myFunc2 for each item.
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> My question is: what sort of data structure could I use to organise this,
> given that I want to associate a set of files with each path and that, for
> each set, there is an arbitrary number of files?
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> Best regards
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> David
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And if you really want to link the path to the list of files, you
could define an object FileList (trivially) implementing the iterator
protocol.