This is probably very simple and I'm overlooking something...
I have a long list of integers, in this case representing daily visitors to a website. I want a new list of weekly visitors. So I need to get groups of seven from the original list, sum them, and add them to a new list.
My solution seems pretty brute force, inelegant:
numweeks = len(daily) / 7
weekly = []
for x in range(numweeks):
y = x*7
weekly.append(sum(visitors[y:y+7]))
Is there a more efficient, or more pythonic way of doing this?
weekly = [ sum(visitors[x:x+7]) for x in range(0, len(daily), 7)]
Or slightly less densely:
weekly = []
for x in range(0, len(daily), 7):
weekly.append( sum(visitors[x:x+7]) )
Alternatively, using the numpy module.
by_week = numpy.reshape(visitors, (7, -1))
weekly = numpy.sum( by_week, axis = 1)
Note that this requires the number of elements in visitor be a multiple of 7. It also requires that you install numpy. However, its probably also more efficient then the other approaches.
Or for itertools code bonus:
def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
"grouper(3, 'ABCDEFG', 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
args = [iter(iterable)] * n
return itertools.izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)
weekly = map(sum, grouper(7, visitors, 0))
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