In python, how to group elements together, based on a key (group adjacent)?

Question

In python, I\'d like to group elements together based on a key (in example below, key is second element, or element[1]).

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Answer 1

You can use itertools.groupby:

>>> from itertools import groupby
>>> from operator import itemgetter
>>> lis = [[10, 0], [30, 0], [40, 2], [20, 2], [90, 0], [80, 0]]
>>> [list(g) for k,g in groupby(lis, key=itemgetter(1))]
[[[10, 0], [30, 0]],
 [[40, 2], [20, 2]],
 [[90, 0], [80, 0]]]

For second one:

>>> ans = []
for k,g in groupby(lis, key=itemgetter(1)):
    l = list(g)
    ans.append(l)
    if len(ans) > 1:
        ans[-2].append(l[0])
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>>> ans
[[[10, 0], [30, 0], [40, 2]],
 [[40, 2], [20, 2], [90, 0]],
 [[90, 0], [80, 0]]]

Update:

>>> from itertools import zip_longest
>>> lis = [[[10, 0], [30, 0]],
 [[40, 2], [20, 2]],
 [[90, 0], [80, 0]]]
>>> [x + ([y[0]] if y else []) for x,y in 
                                        zip_longest(lis,lis[1:])]
[[[10, 0], [30, 0], [40, 2]],
 [[40, 2], [20, 2], [90, 0]],
 [[90, 0], [80, 0]]]