[Biopython] not technically a biopython question
John Ladasky
blind.watchmaker at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 8 19:59:04 UTC 2012
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 11:29:37 -0400 From: George Devaniranjan
<devaniranjan at gmail.com> Subject: [Biopython] not technically a
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> I get the following as the answer for one nCatSeq,
> '4241': ((('VUVV', 'DDRV'), 'DDVG'), 'VUVV')
>
>
> what I want however is :
>
> '4241': ('VUVV', 'DDRV', 'DDVG', 'VUVV')
>
What you want to do is to "flatten" a nested sequence object. There are
many Python recipes to do this. Most of the solutions involve recursive
function calls. Here's a page that discusses several ways to get it done:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2158395/flatten-an-irregular-list-of-lists-in-python
If your list or tuple is VERY deeply nested (say, 256 parentheses), you
may hit Python's recursion limit. There are solutions on that page
which don't require recursion, but they are frequently more difficult to
understand. I tend to prefer code that I can read at a glance, myself.
I don't know why flattening lists and tuples isn't a standard library
function in Python yet, it seems like everyone needs to do this at some
time or another.
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