You are probably going about solving the problem from the wrong direction:
Try something like this, overly verbose variable names used on purpose:
regHours = context.getMainPrint();
#let a dictionary do the grouping for us
hours_to_libraries_dic = {}
for lib in regHours:
key = lib.Monday + lib.Tuesday + lib.Wednesday + lib.Thursday +
lib.Friday + lib.Saturday + lib.Sunday
try:
# if the key already exists add to the list of libraries
hours_to_libraries_dic[key].append(lib)
except KeyError:
# if the key does not exists, create a new library list
hours_to_libraries_dic[key] = [lib]
#print out the timetable
for lib_group in hours_to_libraries_dic.values():
print " and ".join([lib.libraryName for lib in lib_group])
a_lib = lib_group[0]
print " Monday", a_lib.Monday
print " Tuesday", a_lib.Tuesday
print " Wednesday", a_lib.Wednesday
....(you get the idea)
print " Sunday", a_lib.Sunday
print
-Chris
On 6/9/05, Derek Perriero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for not being more clear. I'm using Zope to store the hours of each
> library on the campus. The hours of each library will be set on a basis of
> Monday - Friday. i.e. Monday for a specific library, let's say Downtown
> Campus Library will stored as an attribute of 8am - 9pm, in Zope, and each
> day till Friday will be stored as the hours dictate. I'm generating a
> print-out based on these hours and info for the general public. The goal of
> mine is to group all the libraries under one heading if they have the exact
> same hours, to cut back on redundancy when a user looks at it.
> So when I say: collect = item.Monday + item.Tuesday + item.Wednesday +
> item.Thursday + item.Friday + item.Saturday + item.Sunday, the order is
> already this preset configuration. I want 'collect' to be static so it can
> compare it against another libraries hours and group it if necessary. The
> libraries that fail to be duplicates of other libraries will be generated as
> usual under the grouped libraries. They will have a single heading.
>
> An example can be seen here of what I am trying to achieve:
> http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/hours/summer.pdf
> These are the outputs I failed to mention last time.
> What I want:
> ['8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 5pm9am - 5pm6pm - 10pm', '8am -
> 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 5pm9am - 5pmClosed', '9am - 8pm9am -
> 8pm9am - 8pm9am - 8pm9am - 8pm9am - 6pm12pm - 6pm', '9am - 5pm9am - 5pm9am -
> 5pm9am - 5pm9am - 5pmClosedClosed', '10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am -
> 5pm10am - 5pm10am - 5pmClosed']
>
> What I am getting now:
>
> ['8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 5pm9am - 5pm6pm - 10pm', '8am -
> 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pmClosed8am - 5pm9am - 5pm6pm - 10pm', '8am - 9pm8am -
> 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 5pm9am - 5pmClosed', '9am - 8pm9am - 8pm9am -
> 8pm9am - 8pm9am - 8pm9am - 6pm12pm - 6pm', '9am - 5pm9am - 5pm9am - 5pm9am -
> 5pm9am - 5pmClosedClosed', '10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am -
> 5pm10am - 5pmClosed']
>
> Thanks,
> -Derek
>
>
> On 6/9/05, Chris Lambacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It is very unclear what you are trying to do. Why not explain what
> > you want the output to be. You will get better answers.
> >
> > As a first stab at what you are doing wrong:
> > collect = item.Monday + item.Tuesday + item.Wednesday + item.Thursday
> > + item.Friday + item.Saturday + item.Sunday
> >
> > The above is string addition and the result is a string. The ouput
> > you provide is in fact a list with no duplicates, i.e. there are no
> > two strings the same.
> >
> > If order is not important to you a structure that will give you an
> > 'unordered list with no duplicates' is a set (available in the std
> > library in Python 2.3 and 2.4, see the cookbook for recipies for
> > earlier versions of Python). Note that sets are unordered, i.e. no
> > guarentee is made about what order the elements are accessed in when
> > you iterate over them.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> > On 6/9/05, Derek Perriero < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I've been un-triumphantly trying to get a list of mine to have no
> repeats in
> > > it. First, I'm pulling attributes from Zope and forming a list. Next,
> I'm
> > > pulling those same values and comparing them against the same list and
> if
> > > the values equal each other and are not already in the list, they append
> to
> > > my 'nodupes' list. My current result is showing what I put in I am
> getting
> > > out. Below the code is my output of 'nodupes' list. Here's the
> snippet.
> > >
> > > regHours = context.getMainPrint(); <---attributes from Zope
> > >
> > > libslist = []
> > > nodupes = []
> > >
> > > #collect libraries
> > > for libs in regHours:
> > > cache = libs.Monday + libs.Tuesday + libs.Wednesday + libs.Thursday +
> > > libs.Friday + libs.Saturday + libs.Sunday
> > > libslist.append (cache)
> > >
> > > #pull repeated values
> > > for item in regHours:
> > > collect = item.Monday + item.Tuesday + item.Wednesday + item.Thursday
> +
> > > item.Friday + item.Saturday + item.Sunday
> > > libName = item.libraryName
> > >
> > > for libs in libslist:
> > > if collect == libs and libs not in nodupes:
> > > nodupes.append(libs)
> > >
> > > My Current Output:
> > > ['8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 5pm9am - 5pm6pm - 10pm',
> '8am -
> > > 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pmClosed8am - 5pm9am - 5pm6pm - 10pm', '8am - 9pm8am
> -
> > > 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 9pm8am - 5pm9am - 5pmClosed', '9am - 8pm9am - 8pm9am -
> > > 8pm9am - 8pm9am - 8pm9am - 6pm12pm - 6pm', '9am - 5pm9am - 5pm9am -
> 5pm9am -
> > > 5pm9am - 5pmClosedClosed', '10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am - 5pm10am
> -
> > > 5pm10am - 5pmClosed']
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Perriero, Derek
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Lambacher
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Perriero, Derek
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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>
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