Corresponding order of lists

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November 21st, 2012, 03:29 AM

emo.vs.elmo

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Corresponding order of lists

Hi i was just wondering.. i dont know why i cant seem to remember how to do this but:

How do you get the index of one list to correspond to another?

For example:

List_a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] <this list holds indexes

List_b = [[2,1,3,1], [4, 3, 1, 1]]

the end of this should be:

[6, 4, 4, 2]

So we are basically using List_a as our index for List_b.. How do we do that? so confused,

Any sort of help is appreciated

November 21st, 2012, 09:52 AM

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Code:

a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] #this list holds indexes

b = [[2,1,3,1],
     [4,3,1,1]]
#  +  -------
#    [6,4,4,2]

[6,  # because b[0][a[0]] + b[1][a[0]] is 6
 4,  # because b[0][a[1]] + b[1][a[1]] is 4
 4,  ...
 2]  # because b[0][a[3]] + b[1][a[3]] is 2
# no more because max(len(a),max(len(B) for B in b)) == 4

is this what you mean?

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November 21st, 2012, 02:12 PM

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Yes thats what i mean..

SO you corespond the order of one list with another by giving the index to the list everytime??? for example..

a[0]b[0]..

but these are two sperate lists in two separate variables.

November 21st, 2012, 08:25 PM

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Code:

a = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

b = [[2,1,3,1], [4, 3, 1, 1]]

c = []

for A in a:
    try:
        c.append(sum(B[A]for B in b))
    except:
        break

print(c)

This solves the problem you requested. I can't tell you any more about it.

November 21st, 2012, 09:21 PM

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Thank you.. that still helps me.

November 22nd, 2012, 12:09 PM

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I think a different way to look at it which might be easier to understand is this.

Code:

columns = [0, 1, 2, 3]

grid = [[2, 1, 3, 1],
        [4, 3, 1, 1]]


# Now take note:
#     col col col col
# row  2   1   3   4
# row  4   3   1   1
#
# You want to go through each column and sum the column up.


result = [0, 0, 0, 0]
for col in columns:
    for row in grid:
        result[col] += row[col]

It works for a grid of any number of rows, but if you want it to work for any number of columns too then you have to initiate your results list with something like:

Code:

result = [0 for col in range(len(grid[0]))]

If you want to specify the exact number of columns to add, like say 2, and also do away with the columns list (which is your list_a):

Code:

result = [0 for col in range(len(2))]
for col in range(len(result)):

But the other users code will work much better.

Corresponding order of lists

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