[Tutor] Creating new files w/o overwriting existing ones

[Alan Gauld]

"Dick Moores" <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote 

>     lstNums = []
>     for x in lstSvg:
>         num = int(x.split('.')[0])
>         lstNums.append(num)

This is exactly what a list comp does so you could rewrite it as:

lstNums = [int(x.split('.')[0]) for x in lstSvg]

One of the cases where I actually think a list comprehension 
is more readable than the expanded code.

>     nextSVGnum = max(lstNums) + 1
>     return nextSVGnum


HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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