Neal Becker writes: > Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > > Neal Becker writes: > > > >> Is there a more elegant way to spell this? > >> > >> for x in [_ for _ in seq if some_predicate]: > > > > If you mean some_predicate(_), then possibly this. > > > > for x in filter(some_predicate, seq): > > handle(x) > > > > I like this best, except probably even better: > > for x in ifilter (some_predicate, seq):
That's in Python 2 and in itertools, I think. In Python 3, filter is a built-in and returns a filter object. >>> f = filter(None, map(int, '102030')) >>> f <filter object at 0x217d9d0> >>> next(f) 1 >>> list(f) [2, 3] >>> list(f) [] >>> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
