Righard van Roy <pluij...@gmail.com> writes: > I want to add an item to a list, except if the evaluation of that item > results in an exception.
This may be overkill and probably slow, but perhaps most in the spirit that you're asking. from itertools import chain def r(x): if x > 3: raise(ValueError) return x def maybe(func): try: yield func() except: return def p(i): return maybe(lambda: r(i)) your_list = list(chain(p(1), p(5))) print your_list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list