help with list or dict

[giancan]

Hi guys,
I need some help with lists or dicts.
I have a list with 2 columns like this

"123.04 241.30","232.00"

[and so on for about 400 lines]

and another list which is more complex:

"val1","val2","val3","nnn.nn nnn.nn","232.00"

(where "n" is a number)
[some thousands lines]

Now I want to compare each item[0] from list1 (let's say the two couple of numbers)
with each item[4] of list2
and restitute the comlete item for list2.

I cannot figure out a way to do it in an efficent way.

Thanks for your help,
Gianluca

[slate]

What does restitution in that case mean?
Can you give example input and output?

[giancan]

OK, so list1 should be as follow

14.7992581813 41.5425583232 650.00
14.8021722997 41.5419569232 657.00
14.8009136486 41.5433829232 658.00

and list2

"string1" 2275.2 3323.52 14.8016700793 41.5425025232 n/a 
"string1" 3358.08 253.44 14.8012236611 41.5426947232 n/a 
"string2" 3916.8 1365.12 14.8010810554 41.5413741232 n/a 
"string2" 2401.92 2678.4 14.8009136486 41.5433829232 n/a 
"string2" 2177.28 2327.04 14.8009198488 41.5412501232 n/a 
"string2" 2678.4 2787.84 14.8010004521 41.5412191232 n/a 
"string2" 2154.24 2315.52 14.8009198488 41.5412501232 n/a 
"string2" 2229.12 1618.56 14.8009136486 41.5433829232 n/a 
"string3" 4129.92 2499.84 14.8012174609 41.5414981232 n/a 

With the above example I should get

"string2" 2401.92 2678.4 14.8009136486 41.5433829232 658.00 
"string2" 2229.12 1618.56 14.8009136486 41.5433829232 658.00

because the first 2 values of the 3rd line of list1

14.8009136486 41.5433829232

can be found in 2 lines in list2.

Note also that I ideally would need to substitute n/a in list2 with the value from list1.

[Gribouillis]

Here is pseudo code

for each item in list 1:
    item defines a pair (key, value)
    eg for the item  <14.7992581813 41.5425583232 650.00>,
    the key is <14.7992581813 41.5425583232> and the value
    is <650.00>.

Store all these pairs (key, value) in a dictionary D, and raise
an exception if one of the keys appears twice.

For each item in list 2:
    extract the key from the item, eg the key for
    <"string1" 2275.2 3323.52 14.8016700793 41.5425025232 n/a> is
    <14.8016700793 41.5425025232>.
    If the key is in D, find the corresponding value D[key]. Output <"string1" 2275.2 3323.52 14.8016700793 41.5425025232 value> in this case.

[slate]

You have to create a dictionary from list1 with the first two items as a key and the last one as a value.
The you should iterate over list2 and if the items before n/a are in the dictionary, then replace n/a with the dictionary value.

list1=[a.split(" ") for a in '''14.7992581813 41.5425583232 650.00
14.8021722997 41.5419569232 657.00
14.8009136486 41.5433829232 658.00'''.split("\n")]

list2=[a.split(" ") for a in '''"string1" 2275.2 3323.52 14.8016700793 41.5425025232 n/a 
"string1" 3358.08 253.44 14.8012236611 41.5426947232 n/a 
"string2" 3916.8 1365.12 14.8010810554 41.5413741232 n/a 
"string2" 2401.92 2678.4 14.8009136486 41.5433829232 n/a 
"string2" 2177.28 2327.04 14.8009198488 41.5412501232 n/a 
"string2" 2678.4 2787.84 14.8010004521 41.5412191232 n/a 
"string2" 2154.24 2315.52 14.8009198488 41.5412501232 n/a 
"string2" 2229.12 1618.56 14.8009136486 41.5433829232 n/a 
"string3" 4129.92 2499.84 14.8012174609 41.5414981232 n/a'''.split("\n")]

dic1=dict()
for line in list1:
    dic1[line[0]+line[1]]=line[2]

for line in list2:
    to_find=line[3]+line[4]
    if to_find in dic1:
        print(" ".join(line[:-1]+[dic1[to_find]]))

[giancan]

Mmhh, I guess it's a good beginning for me.
Thanks
G.