My problem. I have lists of substrings associated to values:
['a','b','c','g'] => 1 ['a','b','c','h'] => 1 ['a','b','c','i'] => 1 ['a','b','c','j'] => 1 ['a','b','c','k'] => 1 ['a','b','c','l'] => 0 # <- Black sheep!!! ['a','b','c','m'] => 1 ['a','b','c','n'] => 1 ['a','b','c','o'] => 1 ['a','b','c','p'] => 1 I can check a bit of data against elements in this list and determine whether the value to be associated to the data is 1 or 0. I would like to make my matching algorithm smarter so I can reduce the total number of lists: ['a','b','c','l'] => 0 # If "l" is in my data I have a zero ['a','b','c'] => 1 # or a more generic match will do the job I am trying to think of a way to perform this "reduction", but I have a feeling I am reinventing the wheel. Is this a common problem that is already addressed by an existing module? I realize this is vague. Apologies for that. thank you -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
