[Tutor] Group sequence pairwise

[Christopher Arndt]

Luke Paireepinart schrieb:
> Christopher Arndt wrote:
>> I have tried to find a solution, using itertools, but I'm not very
>> experienced in functional stuff, so I got confused. 
> Do you mean you're not experienced in using functions or do you mean 
> you're inexperienced at functional programming?

I mean functional programming.

> Well, this is fairly simple to do with list comprehensions...
>  >>> x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
>  >>> if len(x) % 2 != 0: x.append(None)
> 
>  >>> [(x[a],x[a+1]) for a in range(0,len(x),2)]
> [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, None)]

I came a up with a similar solution:

for i in xrange(0, len(s), 2):
    do_something(s[i])
    if i+1 <= len(s):
	do_something(s[i+1])
    else:
        do_something(None)

or

try:
    for i in xrange(0, len(s), 2):
        do_something(s[i])
	do_something(s[i+1])
except IndexError:
    do_something(None)
    raise StopIteration

> Dunno if that's what you're after,

Not exactly. I wonder if this is possible without modifying the original
sequence (could be not a list too) and I'd also like to find a solution
that generally applies to iterables.

Chris