{"id":26126,"date":"2022-12-15T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-in-python-how-can-i-change-the-values-in-a-list-to-meet-certain-criteria\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:36:15","slug":"solved-in-python-how-can-i-change-the-values-in-a-list-to-meet-certain-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-in-python-how-can-i-change-the-values-in-a-list-to-meet-certain-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] In Python how can I change the values in a list to meet certain criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-28325721\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"28325721\" data-parentid=\"28325402\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Assuming the existing values don&#8217;t matter this would work<\/p>\n<pre><code>def fixList(inputList, splitChar=\"X\"):\n    outputList = inputList[:]\n    x = None \n    for i in xrange(len(outputList)):\n        if outputList[i] == splitChar:\n            outputList[i] = x = 0 \n        elif x is None:\n            continue \n        else:\n            outputList[i] = x \n            x += 1\n    return outputList\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>eg<\/p>\n<pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; a = ['X',1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,'X',11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]\n&gt;&gt;&gt; fixList(a)\n[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]\n&gt;&gt;&gt; b = ['y',1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,'y',12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]\n&gt;&gt;&gt; fixList(b, splitChar=\"y\")\n[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>EDIT: fixed to account for the instances where list does not start with either X or 0,1,2,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">2<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved In Python how can I change the values in a list to meet certain criteria <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Assuming the existing values don&#8217;t matter this would work def fixList(inputList, splitChar=&#8221;X&#8221;): outputList = inputList[:] x = None for i in xrange(len(outputList)): if outputList[i] == splitChar: outputList[i] = x = 0 elif x is None: continue else: outputList[i] = x x += 1 return outputList eg &gt;&gt;&gt; a = [&#8216;X&#8217;,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,&#8217;X&#8217;,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20] &gt;&gt;&gt; fixList(a) [0, 1, &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] In Python how can I change the values in a list to meet certain criteria\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-in-python-how-can-i-change-the-values-in-a-list-to-meet-certain-criteria\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] In Python how can I change the values in a list to meet certain criteria\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-26126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-python"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] In Python how can I change the values in a list to meet certain criteria - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-in-python-how-can-i-change-the-values-in-a-list-to-meet-certain-criteria\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] In Python how can I change the values in a list to meet certain criteria - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] Assuming the existing values don&#8217;t matter this would work def fixList(inputList, splitChar=&quot;X&quot;): outputList = inputList[:] x = None for i in xrange(len(outputList)): if outputList[i] == splitChar: outputList[i] = x = 0 elif x is None: continue else: outputList[i] = x x += 1 return outputList eg &gt;&gt;&gt; a = [&#039;X&#039;,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,&#039;X&#039;,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20] &gt;&gt;&gt; fixList(a) [0, 1, ... 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