Question

I’d like to split a comma separated value into pairs:

>>> s = '0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9'
>>> pairs = # something pythonic
>>> pairs
[(0, 1), (2, 3), (4, 5), (6, 7), (8, 9)]

What would # something pythonic look like?

How would you detect and handle a string with an odd set of numbers?

Answer 1

Something like:

zip(t[::2], t[1::2])

Full example:

>>> s = ','.join(str(i) for i in range(10))
>>> s
'0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9'
>>> t = [int(i) for i in s.split(',')]
>>> t
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>>> p = zip(t[::2], t[1::2])
>>> p
[(0, 1), (2, 3), (4, 5), (6, 7), (8, 9)]
>>>

If the number of items is odd, the last element will be ignored. Only complete pairs will be included.