Alan McIntyre wrote: ...
I have a list of items that has contiguous repetitions of values, but the number and location of the repetitions is not important, so I just need to strip them out. For example, if my original list is [0,0,1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3,2,2,2,4,4,4,5], I want to end up with [0,1,2,3,2,4,5].
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Is there an elegant way to do this, or should I just stick with the code above?
>>> def changes( dataset ):
... last = None
... for value in dataset:
... if value != last:
... yield value
... last = value
... >>> print list(changes(data ))
which is quite readable/elegant IMO.
Have fun, Mike
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