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Hello!
It's 1:56 o'clock in St.-Petersburg now, and I am still coding... maybe
that's why I encountered stupid problem: I need to remove zeros from
the begining of list, but I can't . I use

for i,coef in enumerate(coefs):
if coef == 0:
del coefs[i]
else:
break

but it removes ALL zeros from list. What's up?


P.S. I feel SO stupid asking this quastion...

zero_list=[0,0,0,0,0,1,2,3,4]
for x in range(len(zero_list)):
if zero_list[x]!=0: break
nonzero_list=zero_list[x:]
print nonzero_list

but some more "pythonic" solutions will be posted from other users I
guess

HTH
Petr Jakes

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Hello Gregory!

I would also use lists to implement this. They are more practical and
you could take advantage of pop() or remove() methods instead of using
the Oh-so-Scary del. You could also use a lambda+map or reduce methods
to remove all zeros or just do something like this:

list_ = [0,0,0,1,0,0,1]
print [ elm for elm in list_ if elm != 0 ]
[1,1]



Regards,

Jesus (Neurogeek)

Gregory Petrosyan wrote:
> Hello!
> It's 1:56 o'clock in St.-Petersburg now, and I am still coding... maybe
> that's why I encountered stupid problem: I need to remove zeros from
> the begining of list, but I can't . I use
>
> for i,coef in enumerate(coefs):
> if coef == 0:
> del coefs[i]
> else:
> break
>
> but it removes ALL zeros from list. What's up?
>
>
> P.S. I feel SO stupid asking this quastion...
>

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Gregory Petrosyan wrote:
> Hello!
> It's 1:56 o'clock in St.-Petersburg now, and I am still coding... maybe
> that's why I encountered stupid problem: I need to remove zeros from
> the begining of list, but I can't . I use
>
> for i,coef in enumerate(coefs):
> if coef == 0:
> del coefs[i]
> else:
> break
for index, coef in enumerate(coefs):
if coef:
if index:
del coefs[: index]
break

--Scott David Daniels

Gregory Petrosyan wrote:
> Hello!
> It's 1:56 o'clock in St.-Petersburg now, and I am still coding... maybe
> that's why I encountered stupid problem: I need to remove zeros from
> the begining of list, but I can't . I use
>
> for i,coef in enumerate(coefs):
> if coef == 0:
> del coefs[i]
> else:
> break
>
> but it removes ALL zeros from list. What's up?

I don't know how enumerate is implemented, but I would
suspect that modifying the list object in the loop
through del is asking for trouble

try
for i,coef in enumerate(coefs[:]):
instead

> P.S. I feel SO stupid asking this quastion...

uda4i

hth, Daniel

I just spend some more seconds thinking about it

lst = [0,0,0,1,2,3,0,11]

try:
del lst[0:lst.index(0)]
except ValueError:
pass

is better solution

Gregory Petrosyan wrote:
>I need to remove zeros from
> the begining of list, but I can't .

I believe the following is almost a direct translation of the above
sentence.

import itertools as it
a=[0,0,0,1,0]
a[:]=it.dropwhile(lambda x: x is 0, a)

On 20 Feb 2006 15:00:51 -0800, "Gregory Petrosyan"
<> declaimed the following in
comp.lang.python:

> Hello!
> It's 1:56 o'clock in St.-Petersburg now, and I am still coding... maybe
> that's why I encountered stupid problem: I need to remove zeros from
> the begining of list, but I can't . I use
>
Only from the beginning? (I think some of the other responses, which
I'd glanced over using Google-Groups at work, were stripping ALL zero
elements)...

May not be the most efficient, but it is definitely clear:

while len(coefs) > 1 and coefs[0] == 0:
coefs = coefs[1:]

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Petr Jakes wrote:

> zero_list=[0,0,0,0,0,1,2,3,4]
> for x in range(len(zero_list)):
> if zero_list[x]!=0: break
> nonzero_list=zero_list[x:]
> print nonzero_list
>
> but some more "pythonic" solutions will be posted from other users I
> guess


That looks perfectly Pythonic to me.

You know, just because Python has for loops and
multi-line blocks of code doesn't mean we shouldn't use
them *wink*


--
Steven.

wrote:

>> I need to remove zeros from
>> the begining of list, but I can't .
>
> I believe the following is almost a direct translation of the above
> sentence.
>
> import itertools as it
> a=[0,0,0,1,0]
> a[:]=it.dropwhile(lambda x: x is 0, a)


Usa lambda x: x==0 or simply lambda x: x

Using 'is' relies on the interpreter reusing existing instances of the
immutable object '0', which is an implementation detail.
--
Giovanni Bajo