Divide a list into multiple lists based on a bin size

Question

I have a list containing more than 100,000 values in it.

I need to divide the list into multiple smaller lists based on a specific bin width say 0.1. Can anyone hel

Answer 1

Here is a simple and nice way using numpys digitize:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> mylist = np.array([-0.234, -0.04325, -0.43134, -0.315, -0.6322, -0.245,
                       -0.5325, -0.6341, -0.5214, -0.531, -0.124, -0.0252])
>>> bins = np.arange(0,-1,-0.1)
>>> for i in xrange(1,10):
...     mylist[np.digitize(mylist,bins)==i]
... 
array([-0.04325, -0.0252 ])
array([-0.124])
array([-0.234, -0.245])
array([-0.315])
array([-0.43134])
array([-0.5325, -0.5214, -0.531 ])
array([-0.6322, -0.6341])
array([], dtype=float64)
array([], dtype=float64)

digitize, returns an array with the index value for the bin that each element falls into.