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Python: Index slicing from a list for each index in for loop

I got stuck in slicing from a list of data inside a for loop.
list = ['[init.svc.logd]: [running]', '[init.svc.logd-reinit]: [stopped]']
what I am looking for is to print only key without it values (running/stopped)
Overall code,
for each in list:
print(each[:]) #not really sure what may work here
result expected:
init.svc.logd
anyone for a quick solution?

If you want print only the key, you could use the split function to take whatever is before : and then replace [ and ] with nothing if you don't want them:
list = ['[init.svc.logd]: [running]', '[init.svc.logd-reinit]: [stopped]']
for each in list:
print(each.split(":")[0].replace('[','').replace(']','')) #not really sure what may work here
which gives :
init.svc.logd
init.svc.logd-reinit

You should probably be using a regular expression. The concept of 'key' in the question is ambiguous as there are no data constructs shown that have keys - it's merely a list of strings. So...
import re
list_ = ['[init.svc.logd]: [running]', '[init.svc.logd-reinit]: [stopped]']
for e in list_:
if r := re.findall('\[(.*?)\]', e):
print(r[0])
Output:
init.svc.logd
init.svc.logd-reinit
Note:
This is more robust than string splitting solutions for cases where data are unexpectedly malformed

How to call a specific item in a list subject to another list

I'm just a beginner for python and i wanted to challenge myself so i created a database as a list containing id,password lists such as:
database =[['hosni', '66741'], ['merdali', 'mkemal'], ['ahmet', '123'], ['ahmethan', '6669']]
I'd like to know an id's index number in the database, so i tried this:
for i in range(len(database)):
if database[i].index('merdali')==0:
print(i)
However i get this: error:ValueError: 'merdali' is not in list
The point is that should not the program run the entire lists independently and check whether the condition is satisfied or not, if so, print the "i" value I demand?
if the code had worked properly, i would have written the following to access to the password:
database[1][1]=='mkemal'
thank you for your helps already!

You could use a list comprehension to separate out the ids and then use .index() on the newly created list
[item[0] for item in database].index("merdali")

To follow your structure while you get to more advanced subjects,
>>> for i, x in enumerate(database):
... if x[0] == 'merdali':
... print(i)
... break
...
1
>>>

It's as simple as a next() comprehension:
index = next(l[1] for l in database if l[0] == "hosni")
By the way, a dictionary is a way more suitable choice for your database.

Regular expressions matching words which contain the pattern but also the pattern plus something else

I have the following problem:
list1=['xyz','xyz2','other_randoms']
list2=['xyz']
I need to find which elements of list2 are in list1. In actual fact the elements of list1 correspond to a numerical value which I need to obtain then change. The problem is that 'xyz2' contains 'xyz' and therefore matches also with a regular expression.
My code so far (where 'data' is a python dictionary and 'specie_name_and_initial_values' is a list of lists where each sublist contains two elements, the first being specie name and the second being a numerical value that goes with it):
all_keys = list(data.keys())
for i in range(len(all_keys)):
if all_keys[i]!='Time':
#print all_keys[i]
pattern = re.compile(all_keys[i])
for j in range(len(specie_name_and_initial_values)):
print re.findall(pattern,specie_name_and_initial_values[j][0])
Variations of the regular expression I have tried include:
pattern = re.compile('^'+all_keys[i]+'$')
pattern = re.compile('^'+all_keys[i])
pattern = re.compile(all_keys[i]+'$')
And I've also tried using 'in' as a qualifier (i.e. within a for loop)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Ciaran
----------EDIT------------
To clarify. My current code is below. its used within a class/method like structure.
def calculate_relative_data_based_on_initial_values(self,copasi_file,xlsx_data_file,data_type='fold_change',time='seconds'):
copasi_tool = MineParamEstTools()
data=pandas.io.excel.read_excel(xlsx_data_file,header=0)
#uses custom class and method to get the list of lists from a file
specie_name_and_initial_values = copasi_tool.get_copasi_initial_values(copasi_file)
if time=='minutes':
data['Time']=data['Time']*60
elif time=='hour':
data['Time']=data['Time']*3600
elif time=='seconds':
print 'Time is already in seconds.'
else:
print 'Not a valid time unit'
all_keys = list(data.keys())
species=[]
for i in range(len(specie_name_and_initial_values)):
species.append(specie_name_and_initial_values[i][0])
for i in range(len(all_keys)):
for j in range(len(specie_name_and_initial_values)):
if all_keys[i] in species[j]:
print all_keys[i]
The table returned from pandas is accessed like a dictionary. I need to go to my data table, extract the headers (i.e. the all_keys bit), then look up the name of the header in the specie_name_and_initial_values variable and obtain the corresponding value (the second element within the specie_name_and_initial_value variable). After this, I multiply all values of my data table by the value obtained for each of the matched elements.
I'm most likely over complicating this. Do you have a better solution?
thanks
----------edit 2 ---------------
Okay, below are my variables
all_keys = set([u'Cyp26_G_R1', u'Cyp26_G_rep1', u'Time'])
species = set(['[Cyp26_R1R2_RARa]', '[Cyp26_SRC3_1]', '[18-OH-RA]', '[p38_a]', '[Cyp26_G_rep1]', '[Cyp26]', '[Cyp26_G_a]', '[SRC3_p]', '[mRARa]', '[np38_a]', '[mRARa_a]', '[RARa_pp_TFIIH]', '[RARa]', '[Cyp26_G_L2]', '[atRA]', '[atRA_c]', '[SRC3]', '[RARa_Ser369p]', '[p38]', '[Cyp26_mRNA]', '[Cyp26_G_L]', '[TFIIH]', '[Cyp26_SRC3_2]', '[Cyp26_G_R1R2]', '[MSK1]', '[MSK1_a]', '[Cyp26_G]', '[Basal_Kinases]', '[Cyp26_R1_RARa]', '[4-OH-RA]', '[Cyp26_G_rep2]', '[Cyp26_Chromatin]', '[Cyp26_G_R1]', '[RXR]', '[SMRT]'])

You don't need a regex to find common elements, set.intersection will find all elements in list2 that are also in list1:
list1=['xyz','xyz2','other_randoms']
list2=['xyz']
print(set(list2).intersection(list1))
set(['xyz'])
Also if you wanted to compare 'xyz' to 'xyz2' you would use == not in and then it would correctly return False.
You can also rewrite your own code a lot more succinctly, :
for key in data:
if key != 'Time':
pattern = re.compile(val)
for name, _ in specie_name_and_initial_values:
print re.findall(pattern, name)
Based on your edit you have somehow managed to turn lists into strings, one option is to strip the []:
all_keys = set([u'Cyp26_G_R1', u'Cyp26_G_rep1', u'Time'])
specie_name_and_initial_values = set(['[Cyp26_R1R2_RARa]', '[Cyp26_SRC3_1]', '[18-OH-RA]', '[p38_a]', '[Cyp26_G_rep1]', '[Cyp26]', '[Cyp26_G_a]', '[SRC3_p]', '[mRARa]', '[np38_a]', '[mRARa_a]', '[RARa_pp_TFIIH]', '[RARa]', '[Cyp26_G_L2]', '[atRA]', '[atRA_c]', '[SRC3]', '[RARa_Ser369p]', '[p38]', '[Cyp26_mRNA]', '[Cyp26_G_L]', '[TFIIH]', '[Cyp26_SRC3_2]', '[Cyp26_G_R1R2]', '[MSK1]', '[MSK1_a]', '[Cyp26_G]', '[Basal_Kinases]', '[Cyp26_R1_RARa]', '[4-OH-RA]', '[Cyp26_G_rep2]', '[Cyp26_Chromatin]', '[Cyp26_G_R1]', '[RXR]', '[SMRT]'])
specie_name_and_initial_values = set(s.strip("[]") for s in specie_name_and_initial_values)
print(all_keys.intersection(specie_name_and_initial_values))
Which outputs:
set([u'Cyp26_G_R1', u'Cyp26_G_rep1'])
FYI, if you had lists inside the set you would have gotten an error as lists are mutable so are not hashable.

Access an element in a list of lists in python

I am new to python and am trying to access a single specific element in a list of lists.
I have tried:
line_list[2][0]
this one isn't right as its a tuple and the list only accepts integers.
line_list[(2, 0)]
line_list[2, 0]
This is probably really obvious but I just can't see it.
def rpd_truncate(map_ref):
#Munipulate string in order to get the reference value
with open (map_ref, "r") as reference:
line_list = []
for line in reference:
word_list = []
word_list.append(line[:-1].split("\t\t"))
line_list.append(word_list)
print line_list[2][0]
I get the exact same as if I used line_list[2]:
['Page_0', '0x00000000', '0x002DF8CD']

actually split will return a list
more over you don't require word_list variable
for line in reference:
line_list.append(line[:-1].split("\t\t"))
print line_list[2][0]

Working with lists - Python

i ran into a little logic problem and trying to figure it out.
my case is as follows:
i have a list of items each item represents a Group
i need to create a set of nested groups,
so, for example:
myGroups = ["head", "neck", "arms", "legs"]
i need to get them to be represented like this:
(if you can imaging a folder structure)
head
|_> neck
|_> arms
|_>legs
and so on until i hit the last element.
what i thought would work (but don't know really how to advance here) is:
def createVNTgroups(self, groupsData):
for i in range(len(groupsData)):
print groupsData[i]
for q in range(1, len(groupsData)):
print groupsData[q]
but in this case, i am running over same elements in 'i' that i already took with 'q'.
could someone give me a hint?
thanks in advance!

If I understood well, you want a nested structure. For this case, you can use a recursive function:
myGroups = ["head", "neck", "arms", "legs"]
def createVNTgroups(alist):
temp = alist[:] # needed because lists are mutable
first = [temp.pop(0)] # extract first element from list
if temp: # if the list still contains more items,
second = [createVNTgroups(temp)] # do it recursively
return first + second # returning the second object attached to the first.
else: # Otherwise,
return first # return the last element
print createVNTgroups(myGroups)
this produces a nested list:
['head', ['neck', ['arms', ['legs']]]]

Is that what you were looking for?
>>> m
['head', 'neck', 'arms', 'legs']
>>> reduce(lambda x,y:[x,y][::-1] if x!=y else [x], m[::-1],m[-1])
['head', ['neck', ['arms', ['legs']]]]