Merge list items based on condition within the list

Question

I have a list of items : eg:

a = [\'IP 123 84\', \'apple\', \'mercury\', \'IP 543 65\', \'killer\', \'parser\', \'goat\',
     \'IP 549 54 pineapple\', \'dja         


        

Answer 1

import re    
def group_IP_list(lst):
    groups = []
    word_group = []
    for list_item in lst:
        if re.search(r'^IP',list_item) and word_group:
            groups.append(' '.join(word_group)) 
        elif re.search(r'^IP',list_item):
            word_group = [list_item]
        else: 
            word_group.extend([list_item])
    groups.append(' '.join(word_group)) 
    return groups

#Usage: 
a = ['IP 123 84','apple','mercury','IP 543 65','killer','parser','goat','IP 549 54   pineapple','django','python']
print group_IP_list(a)
#Result:
['IP 123 84 apple mercury', 'IP 123 84 apple mercury killer parser goat', 'IP 123 84 apple mercury killer parser goat django python']