Is there a simple way to to identify and remove matching pairs from 2
lists?
For example:
I have
a=[2, 5, 3, 4, 7, 2, 2, 4, 8, 1]
b=[7, 3, 5, 8, 1, 7, 4, 8, 2, 6]
and I want to get this:
a=[2, 5, 3, 4, 7, 2, 8, 1]
b=[7, 3, 5, 8, 1, 4, 2, 6]
There are recurring pairs of (2, 7) and (4, 8), and so I want to remove
one of each pair.
Many thanks, Evan 2 1788
Is there a simple way to to identify and remove matching pairs from 2
lists?
For example:
I have
a=[2, 5, 3, 4, 7, 2, 2, 4, 8, 1]
b=[7, 3, 5, 8, 1, 7, 4, 8, 2, 6]
and I want to get this:
a=[2, 5, 3, 4, 7, 2, 8, 1]
b=[7, 3, 5, 8, 1, 4, 2, 6]
Well, with a few caveats, the following works:
>>a=[2, 5, 3, 4, 7, 2, 2, 4, 8, 1] b=[7, 3, 5, 8, 1, 7, 4, 8, 2, 6] a_prime, b_prime = zip(*set(zip(a, b))) a_prime
(2, 8, 4, 7, 1, 5, 2, 3)
>>b_prime
(7, 2, 8, 1, 6, 3, 4, 5)
Caveat #1: the order changed because sets are unordered
Caveat #2: a_prime and b_prime are tuples, not lists
If this isn't a true solution (because either #1 or #2 is an
unacceptable condition), you'd have to go with a loop...somethin g
like this untested
pairs = zip(a,b)
uniq = set(pairs)
a_prime = []
b_prime = []
for pair in pairs:
if pair in uniq:
a_prime.append( pair[0])
b_prime.append( pair[1])
uniq.remove(pai r)
#if not uniq: break
This should preserve the order as well as maintain listsrather
than return tuples. Depending on the number of duplicates you
expect and the size of your a/b lists, uncommenting out that last
line may give you a short speedup, as if you've already pulled
all the items out the uniq set, there's no reason to continue
iterating over the list of pairs.
HTH,
-tkc
That's great, thank you, the caveats are no matter!
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