Re: Struggling for inspiration with lists

2013-12-18 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
- Original Message - > Hi > > I have a list of data that presents as: > > timestamp: value > > Timestamps are used solely to determine the sequence of items in the > list. > > I want to find the longest repeated sequence of values in the list. > Example, in the following list: > > data

Re: Struggling for inspiration with lists

2013-12-17 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-12-18 03:51, Denis McMahon wrote: > I need to keep the timestamp / data association because I need to > generate output that identifies (a) the longest repeated sequence > (b) how many elements in the longest repeated sequence (c) at what > timestamps each occurrence started. > > I'm not

Struggling for inspiration with lists

2013-12-17 Thread Denis McMahon
Hi I have a list of data that presents as: timestamp: value Timestamps are used solely to determine the sequence of items in the list. I want to find the longest repeated sequence of values in the list. Example, in the following list: data = { 0: "d", 1: "x", 2: "y", 3: "t", 4: "d", 5: "y", 7