Gerard Flanagan wrote: > Girish Sahani wrote: > > I wrote the following code to concatenate every 2 keys of a dictionary and > > their corresponding values. > > e.g if i have tiDict1 = tiDict1 = {'a':[1,2],'b':[3,4,5]} i should get > > tiDict2={'ab':[1,2][3,4,5]} and similarly for dicts with larger no. of > > features. > > Now i want to check each pair to see if they are connected...element of > > this pair will be one from the first list and one from the second....e.g > > for 'ab' i want to check if 1 and 3 are connected,then 1 and 4,then 1 and > > 5,then 2 and 3,then 2 and 4,then 2 and 5. > > The information of this connected thing is in a text file as follows: > > 1,'a',2,'b' > > 3,'a',5,'a' > > 3,'a',6,'a' > > 3,'a',7,'b' > > 8,'a',7,'b' > > . > > . > > This means 1(type 'a') and 2(type 'b') are connected,3 and 5 are connected > > and so on. > > I am not able to figure out how to do this.Any pointers would be helpful > > > Girish > > It seems you want the Cartesian product of every pair of lists in the > dictionary, including the product of lists with themselves (but you > don't say why ;-)). > > I'm not sure the following is exactly what you want or if it is very > efficient, but maybe it will start you off. It uses a function > 'xcombine' taken from a recipe in the ASPN cookbook by David > Klaffenbach (2004). >
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