Python | Prefix Sum Subarray till False value

The prefix array is quite famous in the programming practice. This article would discuss a variation of this scheme. This deals with the cumulative list sum till a False value, and again starts cumulation from the occurrence of True value. Let’s discuss certain ways in which this can be performed.

Method #1 : Using Naive Method
In the naive method, we just construct the new list comprising of the summation of prev. value of list until 0 and restarts the procedure once a non-zero value is encountered.

# Python3 code to demonstrate  
# Prefix Sum Subarray till False value  
# using naive method  
  
# initializing list of lists 
test_list = [1, 3, 4, 0, 4, 5, 0, 7, 8] 
  
# printing original list 
print ("The original list is : " + str(test_list)) 
  
# Prefix Sum Subarray till False value  
# using naive method 
for i in range(1, len(test_list)): 
    if test_list[i]:   
        test_list[i] += test_list[i - 1] 
  
# printing result 
print ("The computed modified new list : " + str(test_list)) 

Output:

The original list is : [1, 3, 4, 0, 4, 5, 0, 7, 8]
The computed modified new list : [1, 4, 8, 0, 4, 9, 0, 7, 15]

Method #2 : Using from_iterable() + accumulate() + groupby()
The above three functions combine together to perform this particular task. In this, the accumulate function performs the task of addition of elements, groupby function groups the non-zero values and the result is combined by the from_iterable function.

# Python3 code to demonstrate  
# Prefix Sum Subarray till False value  
# from_iterable() + accumulate() + groupby() 
from itertools import groupby, accumulate, chain 
  
# initializing list of lists 
test_list = [1, 3, 4, 0, 4, 5, 0, 7, 8] 
  
# printing original list 
print ("The original list is : " + str(test_list)) 
  
# Prefix Sum Subarray till False value  
# from_iterable() + accumulate() + groupby() 
res = list(chain.from_iterable(accumulate(j)  
            for i, j in groupby(test_list, bool))) 
  
# printing result 
print ("The computed modified new list : " + str(res)) 

Output:

The original list is : [1, 3, 4, 0, 4, 5, 0, 7, 8]
The computed modified new list : [1, 4, 8, 0, 4, 9, 0, 7, 15]

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