In a message of Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:27:19 +0100, c.bu...@posteo.jp writes: >Thank you for your suggestion. This will help a lot. > >On 2015-12-03 08:32 Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@is.invalid> wrote: >> list = [ item for item in list >> if ( 'Banana' not in item and >> 'Car' not in item ) ] > >I often saw constructions like this > x for x in y if ... >But I don't understand that combination of the Python keywords (for, >in, if) I allready know. It is to complex to imagine what there really >happen. > >I understand this > for x in y: > if ... > >But what is about the 'x' in front of all that?
This is a list comprehension. see: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-comprehensions But I would solve your problem like this: things_I_do_not_want = ['Car', 'Banana', <add all of them here>] things_I_want = [] for item in list_of_everything_I_started_with: if item not in things_I_do_not_want: things_I_want.append(item) Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
