On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Matteo <tadweles...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > let's see if there is a more "pythonic" way of doing what I'm trying > to do. > I have a lot of strings with numbers like this one: > > string = "-1 1.3 100.136 1 2.6 100.726 1 3.9 101.464 -1 5.2 102.105" > > I need to pass the numbers to a function, but three at a time, until > the string ends. The strings are of variable length, but always a > multiple of three. > > That's what I did: > num = string.split() > for triple in zip(num[::3], num[1::3], num[2::3]): > func(*triple) > > it works and I like slices, but I was wondering if there was another > way of doing the same thing, maybe reading the numbers in groups of > arbitrary length n...
See the grouper() recipe in the `itertools` module -- http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html Cheers, Chris -- I have a blog: http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
