Python list of list of lists - python

I don't have a real reason for doing this, other than to gain understanding, but I'm trying to create a list of lists of lists using list comprehension.
I can create a list of lists just fine:
In[1]: [j for j in [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]]
Out[1]: [[3, 4], [3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]
And I can create a list of lists of lists from either the results of that, for example:
In [2]: [range(0,i) for i in [3,4]]
Out[2]: [[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3]]
In [3]: [range(0,i) for i in j]
Out[3]:
[[0, 1, 2],
[0, 1, 2, 3],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]]
But when I try to combine it into a single statement it goes awry:
In [4]: [range(0,i) for i in [j for j in [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]]]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError: range() integer end argument expected, got list.
Am I missing some brackets somewhere?

Try the following:
[[range(0, j) for j in range(3, i)] for i in range(5, 10)]
This results in the following list of lists of lists:
>>> pprint.pprint([[range(0, j) for j in range(3, i)] for i in range(5, 10)])
[[[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3]],
[[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]],
[[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]],
[[0, 1, 2],
[0, 1, 2, 3],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]],
[[0, 1, 2],
[0, 1, 2, 3],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]]]
The best way to understand what is happening in a list comprehension is to try to roll it out into normal for loops, lets try that with yours and then mine to see what the difference is:
x = [range(0,i) for i in [j for j in [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]]]
# equivalent to
a, b, c, x = [], [], [], []
for k in range(5, 10):
a.append(k)
for k in a:
b.append(range(3, k))
for j in b:
c.append(j)
for i in c:
x.append(range(0, i))
At the end of this x would be equivalent to your list comprehension, however of course this code will not work because b (and c) will be lists of lists, so i will be a list and range(0, i) will cause an error. Now obviously this is not what you intended to do, since what you would really like to see is those for loops nested instead of one after the other.
Lets look at how mine works:
x = [[range(0, j) for j in range(3, i)] for i in range(5, 10)]
# equivalent to
x = []
for i in range(5, 10):
a = []
for j in range(3, i):
a.append(range(0, j)):
x.append(a)
Hope this helped to clarify!

From your question:
In[1]: [j for j in [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]]
Out[1]: [[3, 4], [3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]
range takes integer parameters
So when you do
[range(0,i) for i in [j for j in [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]]]
it is the equivalent of saying
L = []
for j in [[3, 4], [3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]:
L.append(range(0,i))
Of course, this will fail because each i is a list and range doesn't take list parameters.
Other answers here show you how to fix your error. This response was to explain what went wrong with your initial approach
Hope this helps

To troubleshoot this, I ran each step of the list comprehension at a time.
>>> [k for k in range(5,10)]
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>>> [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]
[[3, 4], [3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]
Your problem is here, because it feeds lists to the next range() instead of ints:
>>> [j for j in [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]]
[[3, 4], [3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]
You can flatten this list using lambda and reduce:
# reduce(lambda x,y: x+y,l)
>>> reduce(lambda x,y: x+y, [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]])
[3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
But you will still only nest two lists deep:
>>> [range(0,i) for i in reduce(lambda x,y: x+y, [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]])]
[[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], [0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]]
If you want to go three lists deep, you need to reconsider your program flow. List comprehensions are best suited for working with the outermost objects in an iterator. If you used list comprehensions on the left side of the for statement as well as the right, you could nest more deeply:
>>> [[[range(j, 5) for j in range(5)] for i in range(5)] for k in range(5)]

That's because:
[range(0,i) for i in [j for j in [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]]]
^here i == j == range(3,k) - it's a range, not integer
You probably wanted to do:
[range(0,j) for i in [j for j in [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]] for j in i]
^ i is still a list, iterate it with j here
You do of course know that your first statement can be reduced to :
[range(3,k) for k in range(5,10)]
??

[range(0,i) for i in [j for j in [range(3,k) for k in [k for k in range(5,10)]]]]
Because i is a list, you need list comprehend on that too:
[[range(0,h) for h in i] for i in [...]]
In your code:
print [
[range(0,h) for h in i] for i in [ # get a list for i here. Need to iterate again on i!
j for j in [ # [[3, 4], [3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]
range(3,k) for k in [
k for k in range(5,10) # [5,6,7,8,9]
]
]
]
]
# output:
[[[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3]], [[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]], [[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]], [[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]], [[0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]]]
Also, you have one unnecessary comprehension in there. This will produce the same result:
print [
[range(0,i) for i in j] for j in [ # get a list for j here. Need to iterate again on j!
range(3,k) for k in [ # [[3, 4], [3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]
k for k in range(5,10) # [5,6,7,8,9]
]
]
]
As an aside, this is about the point where a list comprehension becomes less desirable than a recursive function or simple nested for loops, if only for the sake of code readability.

Apparently, in the first range (range(0,i)), i is [[3, 4], [3, 4, 5], [3, 4, 5, 6], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]
You probably need to flatten that list before you call the range function with it.

Related

Single vector multiple times in 2d array

This is my code:
b = [6 * [1, 3, 4, 2],
4 * [2, 1, 4, 3],
3 * [3, 4, 2, 1],
4 * [4, 2, 1, 3],
4 * [4, 3, 2, 1],
]
Which returns an array which has 6X4=24 elements in the first line 4X4=16 in the second etc...
What i want to achieve is adding the exact same line multiple times like:
1, 3, 4, 2
1, 3, 4, 2
1, 3, 4, 2
1, 3, 4, 2
1, 3, 4, 2
1, 3, 4, 2 #6 tines the first line
2, 1, 4, 3
2, 1, 4, 3
2, 1, 4, 3
2, 1, 4, 3 # 4 times the second
..........
but of course by not copying the same line again and again
Try:
b = [
*[[1, 3, 4, 2] for _ in range(6)],
*[[2, 1, 4, 3] for _ in range(4)],
*[[3, 4, 2, 1] for _ in range(3)],
*[[4, 2, 1, 3] for _ in range(4)],
*[[4, 3, 2, 1] for _ in range(4)],
]
print(b)
Prints:
[
[1, 3, 4, 2],
[1, 3, 4, 2],
[1, 3, 4, 2],
[1, 3, 4, 2],
[1, 3, 4, 2],
[1, 3, 4, 2],
[2, 1, 4, 3],
[2, 1, 4, 3],
[2, 1, 4, 3],
[2, 1, 4, 3],
[3, 4, 2, 1],
[3, 4, 2, 1],
[3, 4, 2, 1],
[4, 2, 1, 3],
[4, 2, 1, 3],
[4, 2, 1, 3],
[4, 2, 1, 3],
[4, 3, 2, 1],
[4, 3, 2, 1],
[4, 3, 2, 1],
[4, 3, 2, 1],
]
You can also put it in one line with
b = 6*[[1, 3, 4, 2]] + 4*[[2, 1, 4, 3]] + 3*[[3, 4, 2, 1]] + 4*[[4, 2, 1, 3]] + 4* [[4, 3, 2, 1]])
print(b)
Only two steps if you don't want to change how b was created.
import numpy as np
B = np.concatenate(b).ravel()
b = np.reshape(B,(21,4))
You can use a list comprehension of a list comprehension to repeat y times your x lists (from bb and aa, respectively)
The notation is a bit strange, the "center" one is the outer element, then it expands on the right.
Advantage: numpy not required, and it will work for any size entries, unlike other answers "harcoding" the rows
aa=[[1, 3, 4, 2],
[2, 1, 4, 3],
[3, 4, 2, 1],
[4, 2, 1, 3],
[4, 3, 2, 1]]
bb=[6,4,3,4,4]
xx = [x for x,y in zip(aa,bb) for _ in range(y) ]
returns:
[[1, 3, 4, 2], [1, 3, 4, 2], [1, 3, 4, 2], [1, 3, 4, 2], [1, 3, 4, 2], [1, 3, 4, 2], [2, 1, 4, 3], [2, 1, 4, 3], [2, 1, 4, 3], [2, 1, 4, 3], [3, 4, 2, 1], [3, 4, 2, 1], [3, 4, 2, 1], [4, 2, 1, 3], [4, 2, 1, 3], [4, 2, 1, 3], [4, 2, 1, 3], [4, 3, 2, 1], [4, 3, 2, 1], [4, 3, 2, 1], [4, 3, 2, 1]]
It can be done systematically by pairing the factors and the sublists and multiplying them together. Then flat the list.
Here a hacky-way
b = [[1, 3, 4, 2],
[2, 1, 4, 3],
[3, 4, 2, 1],
[4, 2, 1, 3],
[4, 3, 2, 1],
]
factors = [6, 4, 3, 4, 4]
print(sum(f*[l] for f, l in zip(factors, b), []))
The flattening part (chaining of lists) is done with sum( , []) but is not performant (and designed for that)... but still useful, in my opinion, to test some small stuffs on the fly. The list chaining have to be done with i.e. itertools.chain. Here an example
import itertools as it
...
list(it.chain.from_iterable(f*[l] for f, l in zip(factors, b)))
# or (for many iterators)
list(it.chain(*(f*[l] for f, l in zip(factors, b))))
# or with repeat
list(it.chain.from_iterable(it.starmap(it.repeat, zip(b, factors))))
# or (another) with repeat
list(it.chain.from_iterable(map(it.repeat, b, factors))
# or ...
list(it.chain.from_iterable(map(list.__mul__, ([i] for i in b) , factors)))
# or with reduce
import functools as fc
list(fc.reduce(lambda i, j: i + j, zip(b, factors)))

How to recursively extract values from a pandas DataFrame?

I have the following pandas DataFrame:
df = pd.DataFrame([
[3, 2, 5, 2],
[8, 5, 4, 2],
[9, 0, 8, 6],
[9, 2, 7, 1],
[1, 9, 2, 3],
[8, 1, 1, 6],
[8, 8, 0, 0],
[0, 1, 3, 0],
[2, 4, 5, 3],
[4, 0, 9, 7]
])
I am trying to write a recursive function that extracts all the possible paths up until 3 iterations:
and saves them into a list. Several attempts but no results to post.
Desired Output:
[
[0, 3, 9, 4],
[0, 3, 9, 0],
[0, 3, 9, 9],
[0, 3, 9, 7],
[0, 3, 2, 9],
[0, 3, 2, 0],
...
]
Represented as a tree, this is how it looks like:
Since you use numeric naming for both rows and columns in your dataframe, it's faster to convert the frame to a 2-D numpy array. Try this;
arr = df.to_numpy()
staging = [[0]]
result = []
while len(staging) > 0:
s = staging.pop(0)
if len(s) == 4:
result.append(s)
else:
i = s[-1]
for j in range(4):
staging.append(s + [arr[i, j]])

A list in which sum of every item individually equals to 10 for example [ [1,3,3,2,1] , [4,2,2,1,1], ......]. But it doesn't work properly

Im trying to find a list front_design_array in which sum of every element equals to 10. Starting with array and f_ext_ele_groups. In each iteration, the elements in array is appended in f_ext_ele_groups. For exapmle, after first iteration, f_ext_ele_groups would turn into
[[1,1], [1,2],[1,3]...[1,9], [2,1], [2,2]......[2,8]......[3,1], [3,2]......[3,7]...............[9,1]]
At the end, front_design_array should contain, for example, [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1] (its sum is 10) and [3,3,3,1]. After very iteration, the elements of f_ext_ele_groups is controlled for any elements whether equals to 10. If true, it is appended to front_design_array.
But front_design_array eventually just contained
[[10], [1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2], [1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2], [2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1], [3, 1, 2, 3, 1], [3, 1, 2, 3, 1], [4, 1, 2, 3], [4, 1, 2, 3], [4, 1, 2, 3], [6, 1, 2, 1], [7, 1, 2], [7, 1, 2], [9, 1], [1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2], [1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2], [2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1], [2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1], [3, 1, 2, 3, 1], [5, 1, 2, 1, 1], [5, 1, 2, 1, 1], [6, 1, 2, 1], [8, 1, 1]]
and doesnt contain for example [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1] (its sum is 10) and [3,3,3,1] (its sum is 10).
Where is my fault?
Here is my code:
array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
f_ext_ele_groups= [[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]]
front_design_array=[]
length=len(f_ext_ele_groups)
while length > 0:
draft= []
for x in f_ext_ele_groups:
sumation= sum(x)
if sumation ==10:
front_design_array.append(x)
elif sumation < 10:
for ele in array:
var=x
sum_t=int(sumation+ ele)
if sum_t <= 10:
var=x
var.append(ele)
draft.append(var)
var=[]
elif sum_t > 10:
continue
f_ext_ele_groups=draft
length=len(draft)
FINALLY SOLVED. For use an element from a list in iteration, .copy() should be used ! I forgot it for var=x if you look carefully. It should be var=x.copy().

How to generate all possible k size vectors in a matrix (diagonals included)?

Given this matrix:
x = [[1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5]]
What is an efficient way to return all the possible 4 by 1 vectors and 1 by 4 matrix in this matrix. As well as any 4 diagonal spaces joined in a line.
For example:
[1,1,1,1] would appear 3 times
Diagonals also need to be addressed so [1,2,3,4] would be included as a row but also a diagonal.
Splitting the problem into two steps:
Step 1 - get all horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines
Diagonals are tackled using the fact either i+j, or respectively i-j, is constant for the indexes i, j
x = [[1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5]]
pprint.pprint(x)
# [[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
# [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
# [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
# [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
# [1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
# [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]]
all_lines = (
# Horizontal
[x[i] for i in range(len(x))] +
# Vertical
[[x[i][j] for i in range(len(x))] for j in range(len(x[0]))] +
# Diagonal k = i - j
[[x[k+j][j] for j in range(len(x[0])) if 0 <= k+j < len(x)] for k in range(-len(x[0])+1, len(x))] +
# Diagonal k = i + j
[[x[k-j][j] for j in range(len(x[0])) if 0 <= k-j < len(x)] for k in range(len(x[0])+len(x)-1)]
)
>>> pprint.pprint(all_lines)
[[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
[2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2],
[3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3],
[4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4],
[5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5],
[5],
[4, 5],
[3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3],
[1, 2],
[1],
[1],
[1, 2],
[1, 2, 3],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[3, 4, 5],
[4, 5],
[5]]
Step 2 - for each line select each 4-length slice
ans = [a[i:i+4] for i in range(len(a)-4+1) for a in all_lines if len(a[i:i+4]) == 4]
>>> ans = [a[i:i+4] for i in range(len(a)-4+1) for a in all_lines if len(a[i:i+4]) == 4]
>>> pprint.pprint(ans)
[[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
[2, 2, 2, 2],
[3, 3, 3, 3],
[4, 4, 4, 4],
[5, 5, 5, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[1, 2, 3, 4],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
[2, 2, 2, 2],
[3, 3, 3, 3],
[4, 4, 4, 4],
[5, 5, 5, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[2, 3, 4, 5],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
[2, 2, 2, 2],
[3, 3, 3, 3],
[4, 4, 4, 4],
[5, 5, 5, 5]]
Maybe not be the most efficient but it's at least a way of doing it.
There will likely be a way of using itertools combinations to simplify this dramatically.

Python: slicing a list into a list of lists using list comprehension

I have a simple list like this:
mylist=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
which I want to slice creating a list of lists. The intended outcome is:
sliced=[[0],[0,1],[0,1,2],[0,1,2,3],...]
First attempt:
sliced=[mylist[i:i+n] for i in range(0, len(mylist), n)]
wrong result:
sliced=[[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]]
Second attempt: sliced=[[mylist[l]] for l in range(0,10,1)]
wrong result:
sliced=[[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]]
How should I handle this?
Like this?
>>> mylist = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>>> sliced = [mylist[0:i] for i in range(1, len(mylist) + 1)]
>>> sliced
[[0], [0, 1], [0, 1, 2], [0, 1, 2, 3], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8], [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]]
Further reading: Explain Python's slice notation

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