Combine elements of lists if some condition

Question

How do I combine the elements of a list if some condition is met.

I\'ve seen posts about combining elements of a list, but not with some condition.

Answer 1

Use itertools.groupby:

>>> from itertools import groupby
>>> out = []
>>> for lst in words:
    d = []
    for k, g in groupby(lst, lambda x: '!' in x):
        if k:
            d.append(', '.join(g))
        else:
            d.extend(g)
    out.append(d)
...     
>>> out
[['this', 'that!', 'riff', 'raff'],
 ['hip', 'hop!, flip!', 'flop'],
 ['humpty', 'dumpty!, professor!, grumpy!']]