Feature Requests item #1185121, was opened at 2005-04-18 07:11
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>Category: Python Library
>Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jurjen N.E. Bos (jneb)
>Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: itertools.imerge: merge sequences
Initial Comment:
(For the itertools library, so Python 2.2 and up)
This is a suggested addition to itertools, proposed name imerge.
usage: imerge(seq0, seq1, ..., [key=<key function>])
result: imerge assumes the sequences are all in sorted order, and
produces a iterator that returns pairs of the form (value, index),
where value is a value of one of the sequences, and index is the
index number of the given sequence.
The output the imerge is in sorted order (taking into account the
key function), so that identical values in the sequences will be
produced from left to right.
The code is surprisingly short, making use of the builtin heap
module.
(You may disagree with my style of argument handling; feel free to
optimize it.)
def imerge(*iterlist, **key):
"""Merge a sequence of sorted iterables.
Returns pairs [value, index] where each value comes from
iterlist[index], and the pairs are sorted
if each of the iterators is sorted.
Hint use groupby(imerge(...), operator.itemgetter(0)) to get
the items one by one.
"""
if key.keys() not in ([], ["key"]): raise TypeError, "Excess
keyword arguments for imerge"
key = key.get("key", lambda x:x)
from heapq import heapreplace, heappop
#initialize the heap containing (inited, value, index,
currentItem, iterator)
#this automatically makes sure all iterators are initialized,
then run, and finally emptied
heap = [(False, None, index, None, iter(iterator)) for index,
iterator in enumerate(iterlist)]
while heap:
inited, item, index, value, iterator = heap[0]
if inited: yield value, index
try: item = iterator.next()
except StopIteration: heappop(heap)
else: heapreplace(heap, (True, key(item), index, item,
iterator))
If you find this little routine worth its size, please put it into
itertools.
- Jurjen
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