--- 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bejeezus. The description of groupby in the docs is > a poster child > for why the docs need user comments.
I would suggest an example with a little more concreteness than what's currently there. For example, this code... import itertools syslog_messages = [ 'out of file descriptors', 'out of file descriptors', 'unexpected access', 'out of file descriptors', ] for message, messages in itertools.groupby(syslog_messages): print message, len(list(messages)) ...produces this... out of file descriptors 2 unexpected access 1 out of file descriptors 1 ____________________________________________________________________________________Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list