Isn't "while" kind just the "if" of a looping construct? Would [n for n in range(1,1000) while n < 400] == [n for n in range(1,1000) if n < 400]? I guess your kind of looking for an "else break" feature to exit the list comprehension before evaluating all the input values. Wouldn't that complete the "while()" functionality? Shane Green www.umbrellacode.com 408-692-4666 | shane@umbrellacode.com On Jan 28, 2013, at 5:59 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> wrote:
On 28 January 2013 13:56, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
Why not extend this filtering by allowing a while statement in addition to if, as in:
[n for n in range(1,1000) while n < 400]
The time machine strikes again! Check out itertools.takewhile - it can do pretty much that:
import itertools [n for n in itertools.takewhile(lambda n: n<400, range(1,1000))]
It's not quite list comp notation, but it works.
[n for n in itertools.takewhile(lambda n: n<40, range(1,100))] [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39]
The while clause is a lot clearer/nicer than takewhile/lambda. Presumably it would be more efficient as well.
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