Thanks for the help so far. The background to the problem is that the lists come from reading a dbf file. The code that I am trying to write is to merge lines of the dbf based on the first column. So in my example there would be three lines: a 2 3 4 b 10 11 12 a 2 3 4
The expected output from the above example lines would be: a 4 6 8 b 10 11 12 ... and the lines are read as: [[a,2,3,4],[b,10,11,12], [a,2,3,4]] In response to not posting working code or actual inputs, ummm, that's why I am asking the question here. On Jun 22, 4:38 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. 42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> wrote: > Neil Webster a crit : > > > 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 > > 1/ not posting working code (got a NameError) > 2/ not posting the expected output > 3/ not posting the actual output > > > or offer an alternative > > solution to the problem? > > When you'll have fixed the 3 problems listed above !-) > > (snip broken code) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list