How to join list of lists in python?
There are different ways to flatten a list of lists. Straightforward way is to run two nested loops – outer loop gives one sublist of lists, and inner loop gives one element of sublist at a time. Each element is appended to flat list object.
L1=[[1,2],[3,4,5],[6,7,8,9]]
flat=[]
for i in L1:
for j in i:
flat.append(j)
print (flat)
Another method is to use a generator function to yield an iterator and convert it to a list
def flatten(list):
for i in list:
for j in i:
yield j
L1=[[1,2,3],[4,5],[6,7,8,9]]
flat=flatten(L1)
print (list(flat))
Most compact method is to use chain() method from itertools module
L1=[[1,2,3],[4,5],[6,7,8,9]]
import itertools
flat=itertools.chain.from_iterable(L1)
print (list(flat))
All the above codes produce a flattened list
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
Published on 12-Jan-2018 19:43:25
