On 5/10/2010 5:35 AM, James Mills wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Xavier Ho<cont...@xavierho.com> wrote:
Have I missed something, or wouldn't this work just as well:
list_of_strings = ['2', 'awes', '3465sdg', 'dbsdf', 'asdgas']
[word for word in list_of_strings if word[0] == 'a']
['awes', 'asdgas']
I would do this for completeness (just in case):
[word for word in list_of_strings if word and word[0] == 'a']
Just guards against empty strings which may or may not be in the list.
... word[0:1] does the same thing. All Python programmers should learn
to use slicing to extract a char from a string that might be empty.
The method call of .startswith() will be slower, I am sure.
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