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I have a two-dimensional list like this:
[[1, 6], [2, 5], [3, 7], [5, 2], [6, 1], [7, 3], [8, 9], [9, 8]]
I want to remove all the sublists that are duplicates but in reverse order (ie: [1, 6] and [6, 1], [3, 7] and [7, 3]).
The result should be:
[[1, 6], [2, 5], [3, 7], [8, 9]]
You can use set and frozenset:
lst = [[1, 6], [2, 5], [3, 7], [5, 2], [6, 1], [7, 3], [8, 9], [9, 8]]
output = set(map(frozenset, lst))
print(output)
# {frozenset({1, 6}), frozenset({2, 5}), frozenset({3, 7}), frozenset({8, 9})}
If you want to have a list of lists, then you can append the following:
output = list(map(list, output))
print(output)
# [[1, 6], [2, 5], [3, 7], [8, 9]]
You can do this easily by checking if the sorted list is already had already been added. Like this:
data = [[1, 6], [2, 5], [3, 7], [5, 2], [6, 1], [7, 3], [8, 9], [9, 8]]
new_data = []
for lst in data:
if sorted(lst) not in new_data:
new_data.append(lst)
print(new_data) # => [[1, 6], [2, 5], [3, 7], [8, 9]]
This works because [1, 6] and [6, 1] return the same sorted list.
Im trying to solve a coding problem where i have to generate some matrices, im new to python and i cant figure out why my matrix keeps getting changed to the latest matrix being generated. Here's the code i have so far:
def mirrorHorizontal(m):
l = list(m)
matrix_len = len(l)
for x in range(0,matrix_len):
temp = l[x][matrix_len-1]
l[x][matrix_len-1] = l[x][0]
l[x][0] = temp
return l
def mirrorVertical(m):
l = list(m)
matrix_len = len(l)
for x in range(0,matrix_len):
temp = l[0][x]
l[0][x] = l[matrix_len-1][x]
l[matrix_len-1][x] = temp
return l
def rotateMatrix(m):
l = list(m)
matrix_len = len(l)
rotated_matrix = []
for x in range(0,matrix_len):
rotated_row = []
for y in range(0, matrix_len):
rotated_row.append([(matrix_len-1) -y][y])
rotated_matrix.append(rotated_row)
return rotated_matrix
# Complete the formingMagicSquare function below.
def formingMagicSquare(s):
all_matrices = []
base_matrix = [[8,3,4],[1,5,9],[6,7,2]]
all_matrices.append(base_matrix)
print("all matrices after first append",all_matrices)
base_h_mirror = list(mirrorHorizontal(base_matrix))
print("horizontal_mirror",base_h_mirror)
all_matrices.append(base_h_mirror)
print("all matrices after first h mirror append",all_matrices)
base_v_mirror = list(mirrorVertical(base_matrix))
print("vertical_mirror",base_v_mirror)
all_matrices.append(base_v_mirror)
print("all matrices after first v mirror append",all_matrices)
#Same as vertical mirror of horizontal mirror
base_v_h_mirror = list(mirrorHorizontal(base_v_mirror))
all_matrices.append(base_h_mirror)
print("h_mirror added",all_matrices)
all_matrices.append(base_v_mirror)
print("h_mirror added",all_matrices)
all_matrices.append(base_v_h_mirror)
print("base_v_h_mirror added",all_matrices)
print("mirrored matrices= ",all_matrices)
matrix_len = len(all_matrices)
for x in range(0,matrix_len):
all_matrices.append(rotateMatrix(all_matrices[x]))
print(all_matrices)
formingMagicSquare()
The output , if you run it is something like:
all matrices after first append [[[8, 3, 4], [1, 5, 9], [6, 7, 2]]]
horizontal_mirror [[4, 3, 8], [9, 5, 1], [2, 7, 6]]
all matrices after first h mirror append
[
[[4, 3, 8], [9, 5, 1], [2, 7, 6]],
[[4, 3, 8], [9, 5, 1], [2, 7, 6]]
]
vertical_mirror [[2, 7, 6], [9, 5, 1], [4, 3, 8]]
all matrices after first v mirror append
[[[2, 7, 6], [9, 5, 1], [4, 3, 8]],
[[2, 7, 6], [9, 5, 1], [4, 3, 8]],
[[2, 7, 6], [9, 5, 1], [4, 3, 8]]]
h_mirror added [[[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]]]
h_mirror added [[[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]]]
base_v_h_mirror added [[[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]]]
mirrored matrices= [[[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]], [[6, 7, 2], [1, 5, 9], [8, 3, 4]]]
Why is my matrix being populated with the same matrix again and again? I converted the list in the functions i used by slicing it [:]
This is also related to mutable and immutable types. You are dealing with lists of lists, which are lists of mutables. So the inner lists are passed by reference, even if you use [:] which makes a shallow copy: a copy of the container, but holding references to the inner object if they are mutables.
That's why, when you change the inner lists, you are changing the same inner lists each time. They are all references to the same lists.
Have a look at the copy docs to more details about shallow copies and deep copies. This will also give you a solution: use a deep copy.
In each function, replace:
l = list(m)
with:
l = copy.deepcopy(m)
I have a nested list as follows:
A = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]
I need to permute only the elements inside each list.
do you have any idea how can I do this?
You can do something like this:
import random
A = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]
for x in A:
random.shuffle(x)
To shuffle each sublist in a list comprehension, you cannot use random.shuffle because it works in place. You can use random.sample with the sample length = the length of the list:
import random
A = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]
new_a = [random.sample(l,len(l)) for l in A]
print(new_a)
an output:
[[2, 1, 3], [5, 4, 6], [7, 9, 8]]
That solution is the best one if you don't want to modify your original list. Else, using shuffle in a loop as someone else answered works fine as well.
Use permutations from itertools:
from itertools import permutations
A = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]
out = []
for i in A:
for j in permutations(i):
out.append(list(j))
print out
OUTPUT:
[[1, 2, 3], [1, 3, 2], [2, 1, 3], [2, 3, 1], [3, 1, 2], [3, 2, 1],
[4, 5, 6], [4, 6, 5], [5, 4, 6], [5, 6, 4], [6, 4, 5], [6, 5, 4],
[7, 8, 9], [7, 9, 8], [8, 7, 9], [8, 9, 7], [9, 7, 8], [9, 8, 7]]
I have the following lists:
[[1, 5], [3, 7], [4, 2], [7, 8], [6, 3], [2, 5], [4, 1]]
And I am trying to sort them by the first value, after making the list go in ascending order:
Desired output:
[[1, 4], [1, 5], [2, 4], [2, 5], [3, 6], [3, 7], [7, 8]]
However, list.sort() only gives the following:
>>> mylist = [[1, 5], [3, 7], [4, 2], [7, 8], [6, 3], [2, 5], [4, 1]]
>>> mylist.sort()
>>> mylist
[[1, 5], [2, 5], [3, 7], [4, 1], [4, 2], [6, 3], [7, 8]]
>>>
Of course, I could always loop each list in the list of lists and sort it:
>>> mylist
[[1, 5], [2, 5], [3, 7], [4, 1], [4, 2], [6, 3], [7, 8]]
>>> for k in range(len(mylist)):
... mylist[k] = sorted(mylist[k])
...
>>> mylist
[[1, 5], [2, 5], [3, 7], [1, 4], [2, 4], [3, 6], [7, 8]]
>>> sorted(mylist)
[[1, 4], [1, 5], [2, 4], [2, 5], [3, 6], [3, 7], [7, 8]]
But is there a one liner to solve this?
You can do:
sorted(sorted(sublist) for sublist in mylist)
This is a little better than your loop:
for sublist in mylist:
sublist.sort()
mylist.sort()
Of course, this changes each sublist in-place. Judging by your examples, it looks like that is what you want, but I thought I should mention it just in case.
Here is a one liner that does the sort in-place
>>> mylist = [[1, 5], [3, 7], [4, 2], [7, 8], [6, 3], [2, 5], [4, 1]]
>>> mylist.sort(key=lambda x:x.sort() or x)
>>> mylist
[[1, 4], [1, 5], [2, 4], [2, 5], [3, 6], [3, 7], [7, 8]]
I have a nested list and another nested list which is a subset of the first list:
lst = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [1, 2], [5, 6], [8, 3], [2, 7]]
sublst = [[1, 2], [8, 3]]
How can I find the inner lists which are not in the sublist. The desired output using the above example is:
diff = [[3, 4], [5, 6], [2, 7]]
Use a list comprehension:
In [42]: lst = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [1, 2], [5, 6], [8, 3], [2, 7]]
In [43]: sublst = [[1, 2], [8, 3]]
In [44]: [x for x in lst if x not in sublst]
Out[44]: [[3, 4], [5, 6], [2, 7]]
or filter():
In [45]: filter(lambda x:x not in sublst,lst)
Out[45]: [[3, 4], [5, 6], [2, 7]]
If you convert your lists of lists to lists of tuples then you can create sets from them and use set difference operator:
lst = [[1, 2], [3, 4], [1, 2], [5, 6], [8, 3], [2, 7]]
sublst = [[1, 2], [8, 3]]
def tuples(lst): return [tuple(l) for l in lst]
print set(tuples(lst)) - set(tuples(sublst))
will print:
set([(5, 6), (2, 7), (3, 4)])
For huge lists it may be faster than evaluating [x for x in lst if x not in sublst]