otaksoftspamt...@gmail.com writes: > I have a list containing 9600 integer elements - each integer is > either 0 or 1.
Is that a homework problem? This works for me in Python 2.7 but I think Python 3 gratuitously broke tuple unpacking so it won't work there: ================================================================ from itertools import count, groupby old = [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1] new = [reduce(lambda x,(y,i):x*2+y, g, 0) for k,g in groupby(zip(old,count()), lambda (a,b): b//8)] print new >>> [18, 222, 53] ================================================================ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list