On Jan 21, 5:22 pm, culpritNr1 <ig2ar-s...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Thank you Fogelbird and Jeff. > > I actually tried to find out if such function existed. I did > > >>> help("count") > > no Python documentation found for 'count' > > Anyway. More than counting, I am interested in list subsetting in a simple > way. Forget about counting. Say I have a list of lists and I want to pull > only the rows where the second "column" equals 3.14. > > It is a very simple concept. I wonder if python can keep it simple despite > being a general purpose programming language, not a numerical programming > language. > > Thanks, > > culpritNr1 > > > > Jeff McNeil-2 wrote: > > > On Jan 21, 4:53 pm, culpritNr1 <ig2ar-s...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> Hello All, > > >> Say I have a list like this: > > >> a = [0 , 1, 3.14, 20, 8, 8, 3.14] > > >> Is there a simple python way to count the number of 3.14's in the list in > >> one statement? > > >> In R I do like this > > >> a = c(0 , 1, 3.14, 20, 8, 8, 3.14) > > >> length( a[ a[]==3.14 ] ) > > >> How do I do that in standard python? > > >> (Note that this is just an example, I do not mean to use == in floating > >> point operations.) > > >> Thank you > > >> culpritNr1 > > >> -- > >> View this message in > >> context:http://www.nabble.com/list-subsetting-tp21593123p21593123.html > >> Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > Just the number of occurrences? Count method? > > > Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Oct 29 2008, 08:30:04) > > [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)] on linux2 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>>> [1,2,3,3.14,3.14,5,66].count(3.14) > > 2 > > > Jeff > > -- > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/list-subsetting-tp21593123p21593607.html > Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
data = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]] rows = [row for row in data if row[1] == 5] print rows [[4, 5, 6]] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list