In article <gtmlsk$q5...@amma.irisa.fr>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Matthias_Gall=E9?= <mga...@irisa.fr> wrote: > >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]).
What's your goal? After you do this once, you cannot repeat the operation with a different sublist because you are not tracking the source of the numbers. You might look into standard compression algorithms for information about how to accomplish this. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code." --Bill Harlan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
