By Lester Seale
Hello all,
I am currently working on a programming project and am having a mind blank as far as changing the value of a list. I am attempting to implement bubble sort into a program.
Any help would be useful.
Thank you, and have a good day.
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Build a new list with a list comprehension:
new_items = [x if x % 2 else None for x in items]
You can modify the original list in-place if you want, but it doesn’t actually save time:
items = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
for index, item in enumerate(items):
if not (item % 2):
items[index] = None
Here are (Python 3.6.3) timings demonstrating the non-timesave:
In [1]: %%timeit
...: items = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
...: for index, item in enumerate(items):
...: if not (item % 2):
...: items[index] = None
...:
1.06 µs ± 33.7 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)
In [2]: %%timeit
...: items = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
...: new_items = [x if x % 2 else None for x in items]
...:
891 ns ± 13.6 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1000000 loops each)
And Python 2.7.6 timings:
In [1]: %%timeit
...: items = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
...: for index, item in enumerate(items):
...: if not (item % 2):
...: items[index] = None
...:
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.27 µs per loop
In [2]: %%timeit
...: items = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
...: new_items = [x if x % 2 else None for x in items]
...:
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.14 µs per loop
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@MattIPv4 is right, we need a little more detail unless that cut/paste from stack over flow above helps you…
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