On Sun, 27 May 2007 14:55:42 -0700, John Machin wrote: > On May 28, 12:46 am, Steven D'Aprano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 27 May 2007 06:44:01 -0700, Eric wrote: >> > words is a big long array of strings. What I want to do is find >> > consecutive sequences of words that have the first letter capitalized, >> > and then call doSomething on them. (And you can ignore the fact that >> > it won't find a sequence at the very end of words, that is fine for my >> > purposes). >> >> Assuming the list of words will fit into memory, and you can probably >> expect to fit anything up to millions of words comfortably into memory, >> something like this might be suitable: >> >> list_of_words = "lots of words go here".split() >> >> accumulator = [] >> for word in list_of_words: >> if word.istitle(): >> accumulator.append(word) >> else: >> doSomething(accumulator) >> accumulator = [] >> > Bzzzt. Needs the following code at the end: > if accumulator: > doSomething(accumulator)
Bzzzt! Somebody didn't read the Original Poster's comment "And you can ignore the fact that it won't find a sequence at the very end of words, that is fine for my purposes". Of course, for somebody whose requirements _aren't_ broken, you would be completely right. Besides, I'm under no obligation to write all the O.P.'s code for him, just point him in the right direction. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
