Neal Becker wrote: > Any suggestions for transforming the sequence: > > [1, 2, 3, 4...] > Where 1,2,3.. are it the ith item in an arbitrary sequence > > into a succession of tuples: > > [(1, 2), (3, 4)...] > > In other words, given a seq and an integer that specifies the size of tuple > to return, then for example: > > seq = [a,b,c,d,e,f] > for e in transform (seq, 2): > print e > > would return > (a,b) > (c,d) > (e,f)
How about this: def transform(seq,n): for k in xrange(0,len(seq),n): yield tuple(seq[k:k+n]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list