Hi Saad, On 22 October 2012 11:21, Saad Javed <sbja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a list (L) from items of different lists (a, b, c) but > in a specific order (L = [[a1, b1, c1], [a2, b2, c2]...etc]) > L = [] > a = [1, 2, 3, 4] > b = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'] > c = [2009, 2010, 2011, 2012] > > for x, y , z in zip(a, b, c): > L.extend([x, y, z]) > print L > > But this outputs: > [[1, 'a', 2009]] > [[1, 'a', 2009], [2, 'b', 2010]] > [[1, 'a', 2009], [2, 'b', 2010], [3, 'c', 2011]] > [[1, 'a', 2009], [2, 'b', 2010], [3, 'c', 2011], [4, 'd', 2012]] > > I just want L = [[1, 'a', 2009], [2, 'b', 2010], [3, 'c', 2011], [4, 'd', > 2012]]
You've already asked essentially this question on another thread -- in general please don't start new threads for the same question but continue the discussion on the original question for the sake of continuity and avoiding wasting people's time. (New readers of the new question may not be aware of the previous discussion, and may expend time and energy addressing issues which have already been discussed in the previous question.) As for your problem: You're printing the list every iteration of the loop which is why your output looks the way it does. Instead put your print statement after the loop and you'll see the list you get after the loop is in fact what you say you want. However, that doesn't actually solve your problem, because you're putting the input data into the lists in sorted order already. You should jumble up your input data to ensure you also solve the sorting aspect of this problem (or use the input data from your original problem which was jumbled up enough already.) Hint, to deal with sorting your output list, refer to the list.sort() method and the "key" parameter. See also the "Sorting HowTo" on the PythonInfo wiki by Raymond Hettinger: http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting/ Hope is enough to get you going, Walter _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor