Increase minumum value distance between Integers in Array-CodePudding

I would like the increase the minimum 'distance' between values in an array. For example, if I have the array

44,45,47,51,65,66

I would like the minimum 'distance' to be 2. So, the desired output would be

44,46,48,51,65,67

I've tried doing something like

prevValue = array[0]
array.pop(0)

for a in array:
  if(prevValue   1 >= a):
    a  = 1

this wasn't the entire code as I had create temp arrays to not mess up the original one. But, this logic does not work.

Has anybody done anything similar? I was looking at np.arrange() but that wasn't the desired use case.

Thank you!

CodePudding user response：

The line a = 1 only modifies your local variable named a; it would not modify any elements in a list. Here is one way to do what you want:

list1 = [44, 45, 47, 51, 65, 66]

list2 = []
prev = None
for a in list1:
  if prev and prev   1 >= a:
    a = prev   2
  list2.append(a)
  prev = a

print(list2)

They are actually called "lists", not "arrays", in Python. Using the correct search terms might help you find answers better on your own.

CodePudding user response：

Try (assuming the lst is sorted):

lst = [44, 45, 47, 51, 65, 66]

distance = 2

for i in range(1, len(lst)):
    diff = lst[i] - lst[i - 1]
    if diff < distance:
        lst[i]  = distance - diff

print(lst)

Prints:

[44, 46, 48, 51, 65, 67]

For distance = 5:

[44, 49, 54, 59, 65, 70]