Question

Provided that I have a Python list of strings of words, how do I get absolute position of a given word in the whole list, as opposed to relative position within the string?

l = ['0word0 0word1 0word2', '1word0 1word1 1word2', '2word0 2word1']
rel_0word2 = l[0].split().index('1word2') # equals 2
abs_0word2 = ??? # equals 5

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Not sure on what you mean on absolute position, please find below my sample:

l = ['0word0 0word1 0word2', '1word0 1word1 1word2', '2word0 2word1']

print [x for w in l for x in w.split()].index('1word2')

Or:

def get_abs_pos(lVals, word):
    return [i for i,x in enumerate([x for w in l for x in w.split()]) if x == word]

And the shortest one:

' '.join(l).split().index('1word2')