> [Bill] > I've seen list comprehensions, but I didn't understand how they worked. > Since I understand how my function works, it's not so hard to figure out > what your doing with this list comp. I guess the brackets ([]) signify a list. > Then the for loop is placed on the right-hand side and then on the left, you > append to "the list". I think the other list comprehensions I saw before > were performing more operations, but this one is not that hard to figure out.
You're thinking right. The syntax is supposed to be something like [ altereditem for item in iterable if condition ] So, to get all the even numbers between 1 & 10 >>> a = [x for x in range(1,11) if x % 2 == 0] >>> print a [2,4,6,8,10] For a much, much better explanation, I recommend Alan Gauld's tutorial, the section which is relevant can be found here http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutfctnl.htm HTH, Jacob Schmidt _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
