pythonlistcompilationesoteric-languages

Equalizing the lengths of all the lists within a list? (Python)

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I am making an compiler for a esoteric programming language, using a 2d list to account for the language’s 2d nature. The problem comes when I need all the lists in the one mega list to be of same length.

This: [[“#”,”#”],[“#”,”#”,”#”]]

Needs be this: [[“#”,”#”,” “],[“#”,”#”,”#”]]

Thanks!

Solution 
  • >>> mega_list = [["#","#"],["#","#","#"]]
>>> for a in mega_list:
...     a.extend([" "] * (max(map(len, mega_list)) - len(a)))
...
>>> mega_list
[['#', '#', ' '], ['#', '#', '#']]