To split a list into multiple lists based on a specific element, you can use the following approach:
- Create an empty list called
result
that will store the resulting lists - Iterate over the input list and for each element, check if it is the specific element you want to split on
- If it is, append the current sublist to the
result
list and start a new sublist - If it is not, append the element to the current sublist
- When you reach the end of the input list, append the final sublist to the
result
list
Here is an example of this approach:
def split_on_element(input_list, element):
result = []
current_sublist = []
for elem in input_list:
if elem == element:
result.append(current_sublist)
current_sublist = []
else:
current_sublist.append(elem)
result.append(current_sublist)
return result
input_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
split_list = split_on_element(input_list, 5)
print(split_list) # [[1, 2, 3, 4], [6, 7, 8, 9, 10]]
This will split the input list into two sublists, with the first sublist containing the elements before the element 5
and the second sublist containing the elements after 5
.