[Python-Dev] Conditional For Statements (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon May 19 05:55:28 CEST 2008

"Ryan Hitchman" <hitchmanr at gmail.com> wrote in message news:e60c31470805181845u7fb0cafdsb0878db491eb7a3c at mail.gmail.com... | I'd like to propose an addition to the for statement's syntax: || for {variable} in {iterable} if {condition}: | {block} || which is equivalent to || for {variable} in {iterable}: | if not {condition}: | continue | {block}

Is this different from for var in filter(lambda x: condition(x), iterable)): ?

| and || for {variable} in filter(lambda: {condition}, iterable): | {block}

IDLE 3.0a5

for i in filter(lambda i: i%2, range(10)): print(i)

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