Question

This is the example form, I’ll try to explain it in words later.
I have a list from breaking up a string…

say

[a, a, a, b, a, a, b, a, c, a, b, a, a, c, a, c, a]

where b is criteria 1 and c is criteria 2

I want to break it into a list like this:

[a, a, a, [b, a, a, [b, a, c], a, [b, a, a, c], a, c], a]

So I want to process the string such that when I go through it, if the item matches criteria 1, open a new list, if item matches criteria 2, close the list and return one level above.

I’ve tried to do something like this, but it’s not working very well.

def sublist(self, l):
  for line in list:
    if not b:
    self.data.append(line)
  else:
    sublist(l[line:])       #<-----  not sure how to recurse it.

I’ve seen breaking list into equal sized list before on stackoverflow, but not one breaking into sublist using a set of criteria.

Answer 1

here you go:

lst = "aaabaabacabaacaca"

def go(it):
    for x in it:
        if x == 'b':
            yield [x] + list(go(it))
        else:
            yield x
            if x == 'c':
                break 


print list(go(iter(lst)))