I started thinking about itertools when I saw this then I realised that your question was about changing the syntax to produce fewer lines of code rather than writing more effiicient code.. seemed like a case where you could use ifilter.
//Martin are talking about cvhanging the syntax rQuoting Gustavo Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am finding myself often doing for loops over a subset of a list, like: > > for r in results: > if r.numNodes != numNodes: > continue > # do something with r > > It would be nice if the plain for loop was as flexible as list > comprehensions and allowed an optional if clause, like this: > > for r in results if r.numNodes == numNodes: > # do something with r > > Has this idea come up before? Does anyone else like this idea? > > -- > Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro > INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit > "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
