Here is a list containing duplicates:
l1 = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'a', 'a', 'b']
Here is the desired result:
l1 = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'a_1', 'a_2', 'b_1']
How can the duplicates be renamed by appending a count number?
Here is an attempt to achieve this goal; however, is there a more Pythonic way?
for index in range(len(l1)):
counter = 1
list_of_duplicates_for_item = [dup_index for dup_index, item in enumerate(l1) if item == l1[index] and l1.count(l1[index]) > 1]
for dup_index in list_of_duplicates_for_item[1:]:
l1[dup_index] = l1[dup_index] + '_' + str(counter)
counter = counter + 1
解决方案
In Python, generating a new list is usually much easier than changing an existing list. We have generators to do this efficiently. A dict can keep count of occurrences.
l = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'a', 'a', 'b']
def rename_duplicates( old ):
seen = {}
for x in old:
if x in seen:
seen[x] += 1
yield "%s_%d" % (x, seen[x])
else:
seen[x] = 0
yield x
print list(rename_duplicates(l))