On 21 May 2007 05:10:46 -0700, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I keep seeing examples of statements where it seems conditionals are >appended to a for statement, but I do not understand them. > >I would like to use one in the following scenario. > >I have a dictionary of > >mydict = { 1: 500, 2:700, 3: 800, 60: 456, 62: 543, 58: 6789} > >for key in mydict: > if key in xrange (60,69) or key == 3: > print key,mydict[key] > >I would like to have the 'if' statement as part of the 'for' >statement. > >I realise it is purely cosmetic, but it would help me understand >python syntax a little better.
Only list comprehensions and generator expressions support this extension to the loop syntax. [key, mydict[key] for key in mydict if key in xrange(60, 69) or key == 3] (key, mydict[key] for key in mydict if key in xrange(60, 69) or key == 3] For the statement form of 'for', there is no syntactic way to combine it with 'if' into a single statement. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list