Srinivas Iyyer wrote: > Dear group: > > I have a data like this: > 10 15 > 16 20 > 25 35 > 45 50 > 55 60 > 61 65 > 75 80 > > Since 15 precedes 16, I want to consider 10:20 as one > unit. If I repeat completely for data > > I would get: > 10 20 > 25 35 > 45 50 > 55 65 > 75 80 > > test = ['10\t15', '16\t20', '25\t35', '45\t50', > '55\t60', '61\t65', '75\t80'] > > > I cannot think a way to do this in simple. Could > members suggest some way to solve this please. > I assume by "precedes" you mean is one-less-than. To test this you should convert the strings into integers. Since the numbers come in pairs each pair must be split at the \t (using split), then convert each number to integer (using int).
Hope that's enough to get you started. -- Bob Gailer 510-978-4454 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
