Hi all, I've got a simple problem but it's defeated me and I was wondering if somebody could point out where I'm going wrong or offer an alternative solution to the problem?
I have a list of lists such as [[a,2,3,4],[b,10,11,12], [a,2,3,4]]. I need to combine the two lists that have the same first character in this example 'a'. In reality there are 656 lists within the list. My attempt so far is: L = [[a,2,3,4],[b,10,11,12], [a,2,3,4]] d = [] z = 1 while z <= len(L): for a in L: if L.count(a[0]) > 1: d.append(a[2:]) summed = [sum(pair) for pair in zip(d[0], d[1])] z = z+1 print summed Any pointers more than welcome. Thanks all. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list