I am trying to program in python
I have an array which holds data like
[A,20,False] [B,1,False] [C, 8, False]
I want to be able to loop through the array by getting the element with the lowest middle number so e.g. the next element to be worked on would be B because it has the smallest number one. Then this gets deleted so then the next element to be used would be C because out of 20 and 8 8 is the smallest number...
hope ive made this clear
Please help
Thank you
>>> myList = [["A", 20, False], ["B", 1, False], ["C", 8, False]]
>>> smallest = min(myList, key=lambda L: L[1])
>>> smallest
['B', 1, False]
If you'd like to sort it using that element you can do the same thing with sorted:
>>> sorted(myList, key=lambda L: L[1])
[['B', 1, False], ['C', 8, False], ['A', 20, False]]
This will give you the item with the smallest number:
from operator import itemgetter
next = min(array,key=itemgetter(1))[0]
You can also sort the list using the second item as the key:
array.sort(array,key=itemgetter(1))
First sort the list and then loop through it as you said:
somelist = [[A,20,False] [B,1,False] [C, 8, False]]
somelist.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(x[1], y[1]))
for smallest in somelist:
# do stuff with the smallest member
[[A][20][False]][[B][1][False]][[C][8][False]], or is the content a string like"A,20,False"?