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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2004-01-20 20:04:40 (GMT)
committerRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2004-01-20 20:04:40 (GMT)
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Add a Guido inspired example for groupby().
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
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@@ -677,6 +677,20 @@ Samuele
2 ['b', 'd', 'f']
3 ['g']
+# Find runs of consecutive numbers using groupby. The key to the solution
+# is differencing with a range so that consecutive numbers all appear in
+# same group.
+>>> data = [ 1, 4,5,6, 10, 15,16,17,18, 22, 25,26,27,28]
+>>> for k, g in groupby(enumerate(data), lambda (i,x):i-x):
+... print map(operator.itemgetter(1), g)
+...
+[1]
+[4, 5, 6]
+[10]
+[15, 16, 17, 18]
+[22]
+[25, 26, 27, 28]
+
>>> def take(n, seq):
... return list(islice(seq, n))