On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Xavier Ho <cont...@xavierho.com> wrote: > Have I missed something, or wouldn't this work just as well: > >>>> list_of_strings = ['2', 'awes', '3465sdg', 'dbsdf', 'asdgas'] >>>> [word for word in list_of_strings if word[0] == 'a'] > ['awes', 'asdgas']
I would do this for completeness (just in case): >>>> [word for word in list_of_strings if word and word[0] == 'a'] Just guards against empty strings which may or may not be in the list. --James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
