30-seconds-of-code/snippets/deep_flatten.md

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deep_flatten	list

Deep flattens a list.

Use recursion. Use list.extend() with an empty list (result) and the spread function to flatten a list. Recursively flatten each element that is a list.

def spread(arg):
    ret = []
    for i in arg:
        if isinstance(i, list):
            ret.extend(i)
        else:
            ret.append(i)
    return ret


def deep_flatten(lst):
    result = []
    result.extend(
        spread(list(map(lambda x: deep_flatten(x) if type(x) == list else x, lst))))
    return result

deep_flatten([1, [2], [[3], 4], 5]) # [1,2,3,4,5]