(Apologies in advance for breaking threading, but the original post in this thread doesn't appear for me.)
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Sammy Danso <samdans...@yahoo.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello experts, >> I am having trouble accessing the content of my list. my list content >> has 2-pair value with the exception of one which has single value. here >> is an example ['a', 1, 'b', 1, 'c', 3, 'd'] >> >> I am unable to iterate through list to access invidual value pairs Here's a recipe to collate a sequence of interleaved items. It collects every nth item: from itertools import islice, tee def collate(iterable, n): t = tee(iter(iterable), n) slices = (islice(it, i, None, n) for (i, it) in enumerate(t)) return [list(slice) for slice in slices] And here it is in use: >>> seq = [1, 'a', 'A', 2, 'b', 'B', 3, 'c', 'C', 4, 'd', 'D', 5, 'e'] >>> collate(seq, 3) [[1, 2, 3, 4, 5], ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'], ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']] >>> collate(seq, 2) [[1, 'A', 'b', 3, 'C', 'd', 5], ['a', 2, 'B', 'c', 4, 'D', 'e']] >>> collate(seq, 9) [[1, 4], ['a', 'd'], ['A', 'D'], [2, 5], ['b', 'e'], ['B'], [3], ['c'], ['C']] -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list