On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:23 AM, seektime <michael.j.kra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's some example code. The input is a list which is a "matrix" of letters: > a b a > b b a > > and I'd like to turn this into a Python array: > > 1 2 1 > 2 2 1 > > so 1 replaces a, and 2 replaces b. Here's the code I have so far: > >>>> L=['a b a\n','b b a\n'] >>>> s=' '.join(L) >>>> seq1=('a','b') >>>> seq2=('1','2') >>>> d = dict(zip(seq1,seq2)) >>>> # Define method to replace letters according to dictionary (got this from >>>> http://gommeitputor.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/search-replace-multiple-words-or-characters-with-python/). > ... def replace_all(text, dic): > ... for i, j in dic.iteritems(): > ... text = text.replace(i, j) > ... return text > ... > >>>> seq = replace_all(s,d) >>>> print seq > 1 2 1 > 2 2 1 > >>>> seq > '1 2 1\n 2 2 1\n' > I'd suggest, if this is what you're referring to:
x = seq.split('\n ') array_list = [ ] next_3_d_array = [] range_of_seq = len(seq) for num in range(0,range_of_seq): if num % 3 != 0: next_3_d_array.append(num) if num % 3 == 0: array_list.append(next_3_d_array) next_3_d_array = [ ] -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list