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Joanne
Joanne

Reputation: 503

Slicing tuples in lists in Python

I have lists like this:

testList = [[(0.0, -0.9960135495794032), (0.5, -1.0), (2.0, -0.16138322487766676), (2.5, 1.0849272141417852)], 
[(4.0, 3.3149805356833015), (4.5, 0.1649293864654484), (5.0, -1.0), (5.5, 0.33841349597101744), (6.0, 4.702347949145297)], 
[(88.5, 3469038127.7763767), (89.0, 1309004102.449714), (90.0, -1.0)]]

I am trying to slice the lists based on the second index in the tuple, for example, I would like the cut each of the lists into two parts at the point when the tuple is (x, y=-1).

This is the result I am trying to get: 

[[(0.0, -0.9960135495794032), (0.5, -1.0)], [(0.5, -1.0), (2.0, -0.16138322487766676), (2.5, 1.0849272141417852)]]

[[(4.0, 3.3149805356833015), (4.5, 0.1649293864654484), (5.0, -1.0)], [(5.0, -1.0), (5.5, 0.33841349597101744), (6.0, 4.702347949145297)]]

[[(88.5, 3469038127.7763767), (89.0, 1309004102.449714), (90.0, -1.0)], [(90.0, -1.0)]]

How can I make it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 71

Answers (2)

user13517564
user13517564

Reputation:

In the first two cases, when you split, you put the (x,y) couple where you split in both parts. For consistency I do the same for the third (hence the second part is not empty). But it's easy to adapt.

testList = [
    [(0.0, -0.9960135495794032), (0.5, -1.0), (2.0, -0.16138322487766676), (2.5, 1.0849272141417852)], 
    [(4.0, 3.3149805356833015), (4.5, 0.1649293864654484), (5.0, -1.0), (5.5, 0.33841349597101744), (6.0, 4.702347949145297)], 
    [(88.5, 3469038127.7763767), (89.0, 1309004102.449714), (90.0, -1.0)]
]

def find_y(a, val):
    for i, (x, y) in enumerate(a):
        if y == val:
            return i
    return -1

def split_y(a):
    k = find_y(a, -1)
    if k < 0:
        return a, []
    else:
        return a[:k + 1], a[k:]

for i, u in enumerate(testList):
    l, r = split_y(u)
    print("left%d = %s" % (i + 1, l))
    print("right%d = %s" % (i + 1, r))

Cautionary note: usually it's a very bad idea to test floating point values for equality. A more robust test could be for instance:

def approx_eq(a, b, eps=1e-8):
    return abs(a - b) < eps * max(abs(a), abs(b))

Upvotes: 2

Ch3steR
Ch3steR

Reputation: 20669

You can try this.

def c_slice(lst):
    for slst in lst:
        start = 0
        for idx,(_,y) in enumerate(slst):
            if y == -1:
               yield [slst[start:idx+1], slst[idx:]]
               break

Output:

out = list(c_slice(testList))

print(out[0])
#[[(0.0, -0.9960135495794032), (0.5, -1.0)],
# [(0.5, -1.0), (2.0, -0.16138322487766676), (2.5, 1.0849272141417852)]]

print(out[1])
#[[(4.0, 3.3149805356833015), (4.5, 0.1649293864654484), (5.0, -1.0)],
# [(5.0, -1.0), (5.5, 0.33841349597101744), (6.0, 4.702347949145297)]]   

print(out[2])
#[[(88.5, 3469038127.7763767), (89.0, 1309004102.449714), (90.0, -1.0)], 
#  [(90.0, -1.0)]]

Upvotes: 2

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