What I am trying to do is pretty simple, but I couldn't find how to do it.
Starting with 1st element, put every 4th element into a new list.
Repeat with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th elements.
From:
list = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'b']
To:
list1 = ['1', '5', '9']
list2 = ['2', '6', 'a']
list3 = ['3', '7', 'b']
list4 = ['4', '9']
In other words, I need to know how to:
Get the Nth element from a list (in a loop)
Store it in new arrays
Repeat
解决方案
The specific solution is to use slicing with a stride:
source = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'b']
list1 = source[::4]
list2 = source[1::4]
list3 = source[2::4]
list4 = source[3::4]
source[::4] takes every 4th element, starting at index 0; the other slices only alter the starting index.
The generic solution is to use a loop to do the slicing, and store the result in an outer list; a list comprehension can do that nicely:
def slice_per(source, step):
return [source[i::step] for i in range(step)]
Demo:
>>> source = ['1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'b']
>>> source[::4]
['1', '5', '9']
>>> source[1::4]
['2', '6', 'a']
>>> def slice_per(source, step):
... return [source[i::step] for i in range(step)]
...
>>> slice_per(source, 4)
[['1', '5', '9'], ['2', '6', 'a'], ['3', '7', 'b'], ['4', '8']]
>>> slice_per(source, 3)
[['1', '4', '7', 'a'], ['2', '5', '8', 'b'], ['3', '6', '9']]