John Salerno wrote:
> Michael Spencer wrote:
>
>> itertools.groupby makes this very straightforward:
>
> I was considering this function, but then it seemed like it was only
> used for determing consecutive numbers like 1, 2, 3 -- not consecutive
> equivalent numbers like 1, 1, 1. But is that not right?
With one argument, groupby assembles groups of equal consecutive elements:
>>> list((key, list(group)) for key, group in groupby("AAABBCAAA"))
[('A', ['A', 'A', 'A']), ('B', ['B', 'B']), ('C', ['C']), ('A', ['A', 'A',
'A'])]
With a second keyfunc argument, groupby assembles groups where keyfunc(element)
is equal for consecutive elements
>>> list((key, list(group)) for key, group in groupby("AAAaaaAAA",str.isupper))
[(True, ['A', 'A', 'A']), (False, ['a', 'a', 'a']), (True, ['A', 'A', 'A'])]
>>>
HTH
Michael
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