On Jan 18, 1:04 pm, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 12:53 PM, Nicholas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was quite delighted today, after extensive searches yielded nothing, to > > discover how to place an else condition in a list comprehension. > > Trivial mask example: > > >>> [True if i <5 else False for i in range(10)] # A > > [True, True, True, True, True, False, False, False, False, False] >
I think this would be preferred over your ternary-ish expression: >>> [ i<5 for i in range(10) ] [True, True, True, True, True, False, False, False, False, False] Do you also write code like: if i<5 == True: blah... If so, please just write: if i<5: better blah... -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list