python: group elements of a tuple having the same first element

Question

i have a tuple like this

[
(379146591, 'it', 55, 1, 1, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 55, 1), 
(4746004, 'it', 28, 2, 2, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 26, 2), 
(4746004, 'it', 28, 2, 2, 'TheBestTroll Group', 'TheBestTrollGroup', 2, 3)
]

i would like to get instead this:

[
(379146591, (('it', 55, 1, 1, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 55, 1)), 
(4746004, (('it', 28, 2, 2, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 26, 2), ('it', 28, 2, 2, 'TheBestTroll Group', 'TheBestTrollGroup', 2, 3)))
]

so the for any element, anything that is not the first element is inside a sub-tuple of it, and if the following element has the same element as first element, it will be set as another sub-tuple of the previous one.

so i can do:

for i in data:
    # getting the first element of the list
    for sub_i in i[1]:
        # i access all the tuples inside

are there some functions to do this?

Answer 1

It's pretty simple with defaultdict; You initialize the default value to be a list and then append the item to the value of the same key:

lst = [
    (379146591, 'it', 55, 1, 1, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 55, 1), 
    (4746004, 'it', 28, 2, 2, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 26, 2), 
    (4746004, 'it', 28, 2, 2, 'TheBestTroll Group', 'TheBestTrollGroup', 2, 3)
]

from collections import defaultdict    ​
d = defaultdict(list)

for k, *v in lst:
    d[k].append(v)

list(d.items())
#[(4746004,
#  [('it', 28, 2, 2, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 26, 2),
#   ('it', 28, 2, 2, 'TheBestTroll Group', 'TheBestTrollGroup', 2, 3)]),
# (379146591, [('it', 55, 1, 1, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 55, 1)])]

---

If order is important, use an OrderedDict which can remember the insertion orders:

from collections import OrderedDict
d = OrderedDict()
​
for k, *v in lst:
    d.setdefault(k, []).append(v)

list(d.items())
#[(379146591, [['it', 55, 1, 1, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 55, 1]]),
# (4746004,
#  [['it', 28, 2, 2, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 26, 2],
#   ['it', 28, 2, 2, 'TheBestTroll Group', 'TheBestTrollGroup', 2, 3]])]

Answer 2

You can use Python3 variable unpacking and OrderedDict to retain order:

from collections import OrderedDict
d = OrderedDict()
l = [
  (379146591, 'it', 55, 1, 1, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 55, 1), 
  (4746004, 'it', 28, 2, 2, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 26, 2), 
 (4746004, 'it', 28, 2, 2, 'TheBestTroll Group', 'TheBestTrollGroup', 2, 3)
]

for a, *b in l:
  if a in d:
     d[a].append(b)
  else:
     d[a] = [b]

final_data = [(a, tuple(map(tuple, b))) for a, b in d.items()]

Output:

[(379146591, (('it', 55, 1, 1, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 55, 1),)), (4746004, (('it', 28, 2, 2, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 26, 2), ('it', 28, 2, 2, 'TheBestTroll Group', 'TheBestTrollGroup', 2, 3)))]

Answer 3

u can use collection.defaultdict:

data = [
    (379146591, 'it', 55, 1, 1, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 55, 1), 
    (4746004, 'it', 28, 2, 2, 'NON ENTRARE', 'NonEntrate', 26, 2), 
    (4746004, 'it', 28, 2, 2, 'TheBestTroll Group', 'TheBestTrollGroup', 2, 3)
    ]
from collections import defaultdict
a = defaultdict(list)
a = defaultdict(list)


from collections import defaultdict
a = defaultdict(list)

for d in data:
    a[d[0]].append(d[1:])

for k,v in a.items():
    a[k] = tuple(a[k])

print(dict(a))