Question

I haven’t been able to find a good solution for this problem on the net (probably because switch, position, list and Python are all such overloaded words).

It’s rather simple – I have this list:

['title', 'email', 'password2', 'password1', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'next', 'newsletter']

I’d like to switch position of 'password2' and 'password1' – not knowing their exact position, only that they’re right next to one another and password2 is first.

I’ve accomplished this with some rather long-winded list-subscripting, but I wondered its possible to come up with something a bit more elegant?

Answer 1

i = ['title', 'email', 'password2', 'password1', 'first_name', 
     'last_name', 'next', 'newsletter']
a, b = i.index('password2'), i.index('password1')
i[b], i[a] = i[a], i[b]