Here is mine for Python: l = [[0, 'a', 'b'], [1, 'c', 'd'], [2, 'e', 'f'], [3, 'g', 'h'], [1, 'i', 'j'], [2, 'k', 'l'], [4, 'm', 'n'], [2, 'o', 'p'], [4, 'q', 'r'], [5, 's', 't']] d = {} for idx, items in [(e[0], e[1:]) for e in l]: d[idx] = d[idx] + items if idx in d else items print d.values()
Output: [['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd', 'i', 'j'], ['e', 'f', 'k', 'l', 'o', 'p'], ['g', 'h'], ['m', 'n', 'q', 'r'], ['s', 't']] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list