[Python-ideas] More power in list comprehensions with the 'as' keyword

[Cesare Di Mauro]

A solution could be this:

[stripped for l in text.split('\n') with l.strip() as stripped if stripped != '']

so that you can keep both values (l and l.strip()) too.

Cheers,
Cesare

On 27 agu 2008 at 18:51:41, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> There's a pattern I am doing all the time: filtering out some elements of a
> list, and cleaning them in the same move.
>
> For example, if I have a multi line text, where I want to:
>
> - keep non empty lines
> - clean non empty lines
>
> I am doing:
>
>     >>> text = """
>     ... this is a multi-line text\t
>     ...
>     ... \t\twith
>     ...
>     ... muliple lines."""
>
>     >>> [l.strip() for l in text.split('\n') if l.strip() != '']
>     ['this is a multi-line text', 'with', 'muliple lines.']
>
> It is not optimal, because I call strip() twice. I could use ifilter then
> imap or even use a real loop, but I
> want my simple, concise, list comprehension !  And I couldn't find a simple
> way to express it.
>
> The pattern can be generically resumed like this :
>
>    [transform(e) for e in seq if some_test(transform(e))]
>
> So what about using the 'as' keyword to extend lists comprehensions, and
> to avoid calling transform() twice ?
>
> Could be:
>
>    [transform(e) as transformed for e in seq if some_test(transformed)]
>
> In my use case I would simply have to write;:
>
>   [l.strip() as stripped for l in text.split('\n') if stripped != '']
>
> Which seems to me clear and concise.
>
> Regards,
> Tarek
>



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