From 5493c890c27373530a0212361d4632df613d8afd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Muriithi Frederick Muriuki
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:01:12 +0300
Subject: Extract function to flatten list of lists

Issue:
https://github.com/genenetwork/gn-gemtext-threads/blob/main/topics/gn1-migration-to-gn2/clustering.gmi

* gn3/computations/slink.py: Extract the `__flatten_list_of_lists` function
  since it is used in more than one place.
---
 gn3/computations/slink.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'gn3/computations')

diff --git a/gn3/computations/slink.py b/gn3/computations/slink.py
index 0c74789..7ee9b5e 100644
--- a/gn3/computations/slink.py
+++ b/gn3/computations/slink.py
@@ -64,10 +64,13 @@ raise an exception."""
     def zero_or_positive(val):
         return val >= 0;
     # flatten lists
-    flattened = [distance for child in lists for distance in child]
+    flattened = __flatten_list_of_lists(lists)
     if not all(map(zero_or_positive, flattened)):
         raise ValueError("Distances should be positive.")
 
+def __flatten_list_of_lists(parent):
+    return [item for child in parent for item in child]
+
 def nearest(lists, i, j):
     """
     Computes shortest distance between member(s) in `i` and member(s) in `j`.
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