from bisect import bisect_right def bin_it(limits: list, data: list) -> list: "Bin data according to (ascending) limits." bins = [0] * (len(limits) + 1) # adds under/over range bins too for d in data: bins[bisect_right(limits, d)] += 1 return bins def bin_print(limits: list, bins: list) -> list: print(f" < {limits[0]:3} := {bins[0]:3}") for lo, hi, count in zip(limits, limits[1:], bins[1:]): print(f">= {lo:3} .. < {hi:3} := {count:3}") print(f">= {limits[-1]:3} := {bins[-1]:3}") if __name__ == "__main__": print("RC FIRST EXAMPLE\n") limits = [23, 37, 43, 53, 67, 83] data = [95,21,94,12,99,4,70,75,83,93,52,80,57,5,53,86,65,17,92,83,71,61,54,58,47, 16, 8, 9,32,84,7,87,46,19,30,37,96,6,98,40,79,97,45,64,60,29,49,36,43,55] bins = bin_it(limits, data) bin_print(limits, bins) print("\nRC SECOND EXAMPLE\n") limits = [14, 18, 249, 312, 389, 392, 513, 591, 634, 720] data = [445,814,519,697,700,130,255,889,481,122,932, 77,323,525,570,219,367,523,442,933, 416,589,930,373,202,253,775, 47,731,685,293,126,133,450,545,100,741,583,763,306, 655,267,248,477,549,238, 62,678, 98,534,622,907,406,714,184,391,913, 42,560,247, 346,860, 56,138,546, 38,985,948, 58,213,799,319,390,634,458,945,733,507,916,123, 345,110,720,917,313,845,426, 9,457,628,410,723,354,895,881,953,677,137,397, 97, 854,740, 83,216,421, 94,517,479,292,963,376,981,480, 39,257,272,157, 5,316,395, 787,942,456,242,759,898,576, 67,298,425,894,435,831,241,989,614,987,770,384,692, 698,765,331,487,251,600,879,342,982,527,736,795,585, 40, 54,901,408,359,577,237, 605,847,353,968,832,205,838,427,876,959,686,646,835,127,621,892,443,198,988,791, 466, 23,707,467, 33,670,921,180,991,396,160,436,717,918, 8,374,101,684,727,749] bins = bin_it(limits, data) bin_print(limits, bins)