[Python-Dev] comprehension abbreviation (was: Adding any() and all()) (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 20:03:17 CET 2005


Barry:

Ping's suggested list comprehension abbreviation, i.e.:

[x in seq if x] == [x for x in seq if x]

might help.

Note that the last x shouldn't have to be x.

[x in seq if f(x)] 

is by far my most common syntax error, and

[x for x in seq if f(x)]

is always what I want instead.



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