Is a merge interval function available?
Peng Yu
merge intervals. For example, if I have the following intervals ('['
and ']' means closed interval as in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(mathematics)#Excluding_the_endpoints)
[1, 3]
[2, 9]
[10,13]
[11,12]
I want to get the following merged intervals.
[1,9]
[10,13]
Could somebody let me know if there is a function in the python
library?
Steven D'Aprano
> I'm wondering there is already a function in python library that can
> merge intervals. For example, if I have the following intervals ('[' and
> ']' means closed interval as in
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(mathematics)
#Excluding_the_endpoints)
Not in the standard library. There may be third-party libraries that do
it. Did you google "python interval"?
--
Steven
Nobody
No, but try this:
def merge(intervals):
if not intervals:
return []
intervals = sorted(intervals, key = lambda x: x[0])
result = []
(a, b) = intervals[0]
for (x, y) in intervals[1:]:
if x <= b:
b = max(b, y)
else:
result.append((a, b))
(a, b) = (x, y)
result.append((a, b))
return result
Steve Holden
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:23:42 -0800, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering there is already a function in python library that can
>> merge intervals. For example, if I have the following intervals ('['
>> and ']' means closed interval as in
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(mathematics)#Excluding_the_endpoints)
>>
>> [1, 3]
>> [2, 9]
>> [10,13]
>> [11,12]
>>
>> I want to get the following merged intervals.
>>
>> [1,9]
>> [10,13]
>>
>> Could somebody let me know if there is a function in the python
>> library?
>
> No, but try this:
>
> def merge(intervals):
> if not intervals:
> return []
> intervals = sorted(intervals, key = lambda x: x[0])
Since Python uses lexical sorting and the intervals are lists isn't the
key specification redundant here?
> result = []
> (a, b) = intervals[0]
> for (x, y) in intervals[1:]:
> if x <= b:
> b = max(b, y)
> else:
> result.append((a, b))
> (a, b) = (x, y)
> result.append((a, b))
> return result
>
regards
Steve
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Jonathan Gardner
> I'm wondering there is already a function in python library that can
> merge intervals. For example, if I have the following intervals ('['
>
> [1, 3]
> [2, 9]
> [10,13]
> [11,12]
>
> I want to get the following merged intervals.
>
> [1,9]
> [10,13]
>
> Could somebody let me know if there is a function in the python
> library?
I vaguely recall a similar question a long time ago. Peng, is this a
homework assignment?
Perhaps we should add a standard module called "homework". It can have
functions for all the different homework assignments we see on
c.l.python. We can simply point people to this module and then can
include the code in their answers.
Alf P. Steinbach
If it's possible, there was/is this guy over in clc.c++ who responded/responds
to homework questions with the most advanced, convoluted and, except for
misleading names, technically correct solutions.
Cheers,
- Alf
Peter
wrote:
Good idea - that would (also) give the teachers a convenient place to
check for what assignments have been solved by this list so they can
propose something else.
They can also grade the submissions against the code kept in this area
- exact copies could receive an "F" (for example :-))
Peter
Nobody
>> intervals = sorted(intervals, key = lambda x: x[0])
>
> Since Python uses lexical sorting and the intervals are lists isn't the
> key specification redundant here?
Yes, but I wanted to make it explicit.
Well, omitting the key= would change the sorting order in the event that
multiple intervals have the same start, but it still won't affect the
result of the function overall.