Python: Checking to which bin a value belongs

Question

I have a list of values and a list of bin edges. Now I need to check for all values to what bin they belong to. Is there a more pythonic way than iterating over the values a

Answer 1

Maybe this will help get you on the right track:

>>> import itertools
>>> my_list = [3,2,56,4,32,4,7,88,4,3,4]
>>> for k, g in itertools.groupby(sorted(my_list), lambda x: x // 20 * 20):
...     print k, list(g)
... 
0 [2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 7]
20 [32]
40 [56]
80 [88]