newlist = [y.cap for y in industrylist if y.cap < x] On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:00 pm, Leeds, Mark wrote: > I have a structure in python that I think is a list > > with elements .Cap and .Ticker > > where Cap is a float and Ticker is string. > > > > So, I reference things like > > industrylist[i].cap and industrylist[i].ticker > > and this works fine. > > > > What I want to do is reduce the list > > so that it only keeps elements of the list > > for which the cap is less than x where x is known ? > > > > I think I need to use filter and lambda but > > i've looked in the documentation > > and I haven't been able to figure out > > how to use it. > > > > Apologies if this is a bad question. > > > > Thanks
-- James Stroud, Ph.D. UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
