FlattenList 0.1.4

Given a list of nested lists/tuples, returns all the elements in a single list

Given a list of nested lists/tuples, returns all the elements in a single list. Typical usage:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from flatten.flatten import flattenlist

the_list = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6], [7], [8,9]]
flattenlist(the_list)
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Short Intro

There are already many implementations of this problem, given below.

• Enthought Matplotlib. If you have matplotlib installed or Enthought Canopy.The flatten module using:

  from matplotlib.cbook import flatten

• The main recipie for above code given here:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/121294

• An attempt using this module is made in this stackoverflow problem:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406121/flattening-a-shallow-list-in-python/20400584#20400584

FlattenList is a vanilla python attempt to get the same result without any external module overhead.