On Mon, 4 May 2009, Matthias Gallé wrote: > Hi. > > My problem is to replace all occurrences of a sublist with a new element. > > Example: > Given ['a','c','a','c','c','g','a','c'] I want to replace all > occurrences of ['a','c'] by 6 (result [6,6,'c','g',6]). >
li=['a', 'c', 'a', 'c', 'c', 'g', 'a', 'c']
for i in range(len(li)):
if li[i:i + 2] == ['a', 'c']:
li[i:i + 2] = ['6']
HTH,
John
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