delete specific elements from list - list

First I select the group named hairSystem1Follicles and make a list of it
then I make an empty list with things to delete
cmds.select('hairSystem1Follicles',hi=1)
list=cmds.ls(sl=1)
listtodelete=[]
I have tried two things, but both are useless.
I would like it to isolate all the elements in the list with the name curve1 curve2 etc. not # the other things in the list which are named loftfolicle*
attempt 1
for e in list:
if e=='curve*': #Find which ones are Write nodes
listtodelete.append(e)
attempt 2
for e in list:
if 'curve'+'*' in e:
listtodelete.append(e)
neither seem to work out.

I dont know how which functions you use to get your list (i would rename your list, because "list" is the typename of the built-in list), but if your list only contains strings, this code should work:
for e in myList: //renamed list
if e.lower().startswith("curve"):
listtodelete.append(e)
This code checks, if the lowercase version of e starts with "curve", so things like "curve2", "curve4", "CuRvEandsoOn" are appended to listtodelete. If there are any more conditions to check on e, let me know. By the way, if e is no string, maybe because you iterate a list of object, and you get "the name of e" (the actual string to check) by e.g. e.name(), just add this line of code at the beginning of your for loop:
e = e.name() //or something else, if e is no string, but e.name() is

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SML counting within a pair of lists

I am trying to write a function in SML that takes in a pair of lists. The first list in the pair is a list of integers and the second list is a list of booleans. Ex: (([3, 5, 9], [true, false, false])). I am having trouble with the proper syntax to return how many times 'true' is found in the second list.
You would want to break this down.
Can you count the number of times a value is found in a list?
Can you pattern match out the second list in the tuple?
The first one can be accomplished by implementing a count function. A basic shell for that would look something like:
fun count (_, []) = ...
| count (v, (x::xs)) =
if ... then ...
else ...
For the second, well, you can see pattern-matching for binding names to the elements of a tuple in the above code.
Doing anything more would be doing your homework for you, and that would be a disservice.

Applying regexp and finding the highest number in a list

I have got a list of different names. I have a script that prints out the names from the list.
req=urllib2.Request('http://some.api.com/')
req.add_header('AUTHORIZATION', 'Token token=hash')
response = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
json_content = json.loads(response)
for name in json_content:
print name['name']
Output:
Thomas001
Thomas002
Alice001
Ben001
Thomas120
I need to find the max number that comes with the name Thomas. Is there a simple way to to apply regexp for all the elements that contain "Thomas" and then apply max(list) to them? The only way that I have came up with is to go through each element in the list, match regexp for Thomas, then strip the letters and put the remaining numbers to a new list, but this seems pretty bulky.
You don't need regular expressions, and you don't need sorting. As you said, max() is fine. To be safe in case the list contains names like "Thomasson123", you can use:
names = ((x['name'][:6], x['name'][6:]) for x in json_content)
max(int(b) for a, b in names if a == 'Thomas' and b.isdigit())
The first assignment creates a generator expression, so there will be only one pass over the sequence to find the maximum.
You don't need to go for regex. Just store the results in a list and then apply sorted function on that.
>>> l = ['Thomas001',
'homas002',
'Alice001',
'Ben001',
'Thomas120']
>>> [i for i in sorted(l) if i.startswith('Thomas')][-1]
'Thomas120'

How to read each element within a tuple from a list

I want to write a program which will read in a list of tuples, and in the tuple it will contain two elements. The first element can be an Object, and the second element will be the quantity of that Object. Just like: Mylist([{Object1,Numbers},{Object2, Numbers}]).
Then I want to read in the Numbers and print the related Object Numbers times and then store them in a list.
So if Mylist([{lol, 3},{lmao, 2}]), then I should get [lol, lol, lol, lmao, lmao] as the final result.
My thought is to first unzip those tuples (imagine if there are more than 2) into two tuples which the first one contains the Objects while the second one contains the quantity numbers.
After that read the numbers in second tuples and then print the related Object in first tuple with the exact times. But I don't know how to do this. THanks for any help!
A list comprehension can do that:
lists:flatten([lists:duplicate(N,A) || {A, N} <- L]).
If you really want printing too, use recursion:
p([]) -> [];
p([{A,N}|T]) ->
FmtString = string:join(lists:duplicate(N,"~p"), " ")++"\n",
D = lists:duplicate(N,A),
io:format(FmtString, D),
D++p(T).
This code creates a format string for io:format/2 using lists:duplicate/2 to replicate the "~p" format specifier N times, joins them with a space with string:join/2, and adds a newline. It then uses lists:duplicate/2 again to get a list of N copies of A, prints those N items using the format string, and then combines the list with the result of a recursive call to create the function result.

Removing the first instance of x from a list

I am new to Haskell and have been trying to pick up the basics.
Assume I have the following list y:
3:3:2:1:9:7:3:[]
I am trying to find a way to delete the first occurrence of 3 in list y. Is this possible using simple list comprehension?
What I tried (this method deletes all instances from a list):
deleteFirst _ [] = []
deleteFirst a (b:bc) | a == b = deleteFirst a bc
| otherwise = b : deleteFirst a bc
No, it's not possible using a list comprehension. In a list comprehension you make a decision which element to keep based on that element only. In your example, you want to treat the first 3 you encounter differently than other 3s (because you only want to remove the first one), so the decision does not depend on the element alone. So a list comprehension won't work.
Your attempt using a recursive function is already pretty close, except that, as you said, it removes all instances. Why does it remove all instances? Because after you removed the first one, you call deleteFirst again on the rest of the list, which will remove the next instance and so on. To fix this, just do not call deleteFirst again after removing the first instance. So just use bc instead of deleteFirst a bc in that case.
as other already mentioned list comprehension is not an appropriate solution to this task (difficult to terminate the execution at one step).
You've almost written the correct solution, just in the case of equality with the matched value you had to terminate the computation by returning the rest of list without the matched element:
deleteFirst _ [] = []
deleteFirst a (b:bc) | a == b = bc
| otherwise = b : deleteFirst a bc
> print $ deleteFirst 3 (3:3:2:1:9:7:3:[])
> [3,2,1,9,7,3]
I don’t believe it is possible to do this with list comprehension (at least not in in any idiomatic way).
Your deleteFirst works almost. All you need to change to fix is is to stop deleting after the first match, i.e. replace deleteFirst a bc in the first clause by bc.
sepp2k's remarks about list comprehensions are an important thing to understand; list operations like map, filter, foldr and so on treat all list items uniformly, and the important thing to understand about them is what information is available at each step, and how each step's result is combined with those of other steps.
But the aspect I want to stress is that I think you should really be trying to solve these problems in terms of library functions. Adapting the solution from this older answer of mine to your problem:
deleteFirst x xs = beforeX ++ afterX
-- Split the list into two pieces:
-- * prefix = all items before first x
-- * suffix = all items after first x
where (beforeX, xAndLater) = break (/=x) xs
afterX = case xAndLater of
[] -> []
(_:xs) -> xs
The trick is that break already has the "up to first hit" behavior built in it. As a further exercise, you can try writing your own version of break; it's always instructive to learn how to write these small, generic and reusable functions.

Prolog Insert list as element into another List

In my program my P = [0,1,2] I want to store it into another LIST, because P will keep changing in a loop so I want to store P into a LIST, so my LIST will be like below :
eg.
LIST = [[0,1,2],[3,4,5],[6,7,8]]
create_list([],[]).
create_list(G, [H|G]).
This is what I did, create_list(P,LIST). I not sure how to do it as it keep return me no. But I am pretty sure I can get different P because I am able to print them out each time P changed.
You need to create a predicate that receives the item (list in this case) you want to append to another input list, and this would give you a new list with the which has all the items of your input list plus the new item.
So, it would be something like:
create_list(Item, List, [Item|List]).
Initially the input List would be an empty list ([]), so you might call it
create_list([0,1,2], [], List1),
create_list([3,4,5], List1, List2),
create_list([6,7,8], List2, List).
This will result in List instantiated with [[0,1,2],[3,4,5],[6,7,8]]