Excellent! Thanks all. Since I need to have this running on python 2.4 as
well, I think I'll choose,
for alpha in alist:
for xy in xlist:
if alpha+xy in checklist:
break
else:
missing.append(alpha)
jus tested and worked like a charm.
Appreciate your help!!
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Luis Alberto Zarrabeitia Gomez
<ky...@uh.cu>wrote:
>
> Quoting PK <superp...@gmail.com>:
>
> > So I'm trying to see whats the cleanest way to do this:
> >
> > I have a
> >
> > checklist = [ax, bx, by, cy ..] (a combination of a,b,c with x and y,
> > either both on one)
> >
> > allist = [a,b,c,....]
> > xlist = [x, y, ..]
> >
> [...]
> > now the problem is I want to include alpha in missing list only if
> > none of the combinations from xlist with alpha are in checklist.
>
> This is untested:
>
> for alpha in alist:
> for xy in xlist:
> if alpha+xy in checklist:
> break
> else:
> missing.append(alpha)
>
> (note that the "else" is for the "for", not the "if")
>
> You could also try the any/all functions from python2.5:
>
> for alpha in alist:
> if not any(alpha + xy in checklist for xy in xlist):
> missing.append(alpha)
>
>
> Or the really not recommended one-liner:
>
> missing = [alpha for alpha in alist if not any(alpha + xy in checklist for
> xy in
> xlist)]
>
> (remember, all of this is untested)
>
> --
> Luis Zarrabeitia
> Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH
> http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie<http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/%7Ekyrie>
>
>
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