Hi all, I am having a bit of difficulty in figuring out an efficient way to split up my data and identify the unique pieces of it.
list=['1p2m_3.3-1.8v_sal_ms','1p2m_3.3-1.8_sal_log'] Now I want to split each item up on the "_" and compare it with all others on the list, if there is a difference I want to create a list of the possible choices, and ask the user which choice of the list they want. I have the questioning part under control. I can't seem to get my hands around the logic - the list could be 2 items or 100 long. The point of this is that I am trying to narrow a decision down for an end user. In other words the end user needs to select one of the list items, and by breaking it down for them I hope to simplify this. list=['1p2m_3.3-1.8v_sal_ms','1p6m_3.3-1.8_sal_log'] would only question the first data set ['1p2m', '1p6m' ] list=['1p2m_3.3-1.8v_sal_ms','1p2m_3.3-1.8v_pol_ms','1p3m_3.3-18.v_sal_ms'] If on the list ['1p2m','1p2m','1p3m'] the user selected 1p2m then the next list would only be ['sal','pol'] but if the user initially only selected 1p3m they would be done.. I hope this clarifies what I am trying to do. I just can't seem to get my hands around this - so an explaination of logic would really be helpfull. I picture a 2d list but I can't seem to get it.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
