Listwiz API Reference

Listwiz

This is a module with toy list manipulation and inspection functions for a EuroSciPy tutorial.

There are three submodules containing our functionality:

Listwiz inspect

This module contains some functions inspecting a list.

listwiz.inspect.largest_element(l)

Find the largest element and its index

Parameters:

llist

The list to find the largest element in.

Returns:

value, index

A tuple of the largest value and its index.

Listwiz sorting

This submodule contains implementations for different sorting methods.

listwiz.sorting.merge_sort(l)

Use the merge sort algorithm to sort the list elements.

Parameters:

llist

The list to sort

Returns:

sorted_list

Listwiz replace

This module contains functions to replace some elements of a list.

listwiz.replace.replace_sublist(l, sublist, replacement)

Naive function to replace a sublist with a replacement list.

Parameters:

llist

List to replace all occurances of sublist.

sublistlist

A (shorter) list to search for.

replacementlist

A new list to insert instead of sublist.

Examples

>>> from listwiz.replace import replace_sublist

Replace any occurance of [2, 3] with [3, 2]

>>> replace_sublist([1, 2, 3, 4], [2, 3], [3, 2])
[1, 3, 2, 4]