Re: [python-win32] Identify unique data from sequence array

2010-12-22 Thread Aahz
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010, Mike Diehn wrote: > > I'm a unix guy. That's what we call a sort-uniq operation, after the > pipeline we'd use: sort datafile | uniq > uniq-lines.txt. So I google that > with python and Side note: these days if you're using GNU utilities (i.e. you're on Linux or CygWin

Re: [python-win32] Identify unique data from sequence array

2010-12-22 Thread Tim Roberts
otrov wrote: >> 1. Start with the first element (call it L) >> 2. Scan downwind for an matching element (call it R) >> 3. Compare L+1 and R+1 until you find a mismatch -- that's the current >> "largest" match. >> 4. Repeat from 2 to see if you can find a longer match. > Actually, step "4. Repeat fr

Re: [python-win32] Identify unique data from sequence array

2010-12-22 Thread otrov
> 1. Start with the first element (call it L) > 2. Scan downwind for an matching element (call it R) > 3. Compare L+1 and R+1 until you find a mismatch -- that's the current > "largest" match. > 4. Repeat from 2 to see if you can find a longer match. Actually, step "4. Repeat from 2...", can be fu

Re: [python-win32] Identify unique data from sequence array

2010-12-22 Thread Tim Roberts
otrov wrote: > > Thanks for your reply, but perhaps there is misunderstanding: > > I don't want unique values, but unique sequence (block) of data that is > repeated in array: > > A B C D D D A B C D D D A B C D D D > |_| |_| |_| > | | | >unique

Re: [python-win32] Identify unique data from sequence array

2010-12-22 Thread otrov
> I'm a unix guy. That's what we call a sort-uniq operation, after the > pipeline we'd use: sort datafile | uniq > uniq-lines.txt. So I google that > with python and > As Jason Petrone wrote when he withdrew PEP 270 in > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0270/: > "creating a sequence wi

Re: [python-win32] Identify unique data from sequence array

2010-12-22 Thread Mike Diehn
I'm a unix guy. That's what we call a sort-uniq operation, after the pipeline we'd use: sort datafile | uniq > uniq-lines.txt. So I google that with python and As Jason Petrone wrote when he withdrew PEP 270 in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0270/: "creating a sequence without duplic

Re: [python-win32] Identify unique data from sequence array

2010-12-22 Thread Aahz
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010, otrov wrote: > > I failed in my first idea to solve this problem with matlab/octave, > as I just started using this tools for data manipulation, and then > thought to try python as more feature rich descriptive language and > post this problem to python group I'm subscribed al

[python-win32] Identify unique data from sequence array

2010-12-22 Thread otrov
Hi, I failed in my first idea to solve this problem with matlab/octave, as I just started using this tools for data manipulation, and then thought to try python as more feature rich descriptive language and post this problem to python group I'm subscribed already Let's consider this simple dict