On 13/12/2013 09:43, Peter Otten wrote:
Shyam Parimal Katti wrote:
Hello,
I have a list of sql queries, some which are split across multiple list
elements e.x.
['drop table sample_table;', 'create table sample_test', '(col1 int);',
'select col1 from', ' sample_test;']
A semi-colon in the string value indicates the termination of a sql
query. So the expected out come is a conversion to a list of valid sql
queries:
['drop table sample_table;', 'create table sample_test (col1 int);',
'select col1 from sample_test;']
Here is the code that does that:
sample = ['drop table sample_table;', 'create table sample_test', '(col1
int);', 'select col1 from', ' sample_test;']
pure_sqls = []
query_holder= ''
for each_line in sample:
query_holder += each_line
if query_holder.endswith(';'):
pure_sqls.append(query_holder)
query_holder = ''
Is there a way to do this by eliminating explicit creation of new
list(pure_sqls) and a temporary variable(query_holder)? Using list
comprehension? Though I don't want to put the shorter version in
production(if it is difficult to understand), I am looking if this can be
done with list comprehension since I am trying to learn list comprehension
by using it in such scenarios.
Yours is the sane approach, but it may be fun to try to understand the
following evil hacks ;)
[sql.replace("\0", " ") + ";" for sql in "\0".join(sample +
[""]).split(";\0") if sql]
['drop table sample_table;', 'create table sample_test (col1 int);', 'select
col1 from sample_test;']
from itertools import groupby
def key(x, group=[0]):
... try:
... return group[0]
... finally:
... group[0] += x.endswith(";")
...
[" ".join(group) for _, group in groupby(sample, key)]
['drop table sample_table;', 'create table sample_test (col1 int);', 'select
col1 from sample_test;']
Evil? Bring back the death penalty for code like the above, that's what
I say :)
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