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

[Josiah Carlson]

The split/strip stuff is simple on purpose; it's fast.  Tossing in
regular expressions handling is a great way to slow down the general
case, never mind if you actually want to split on the passed literal
string.

 - Josiah

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:
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> Josiah Carlson wrote:
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>> -1 on the feature, I use the compound expression as below, only have
>> the internal item be a generator expression to reduce peak memory
>> usage.  Also, the != condition is unnecessary.
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>> [t for t in (t.strip() for t in text.split('\n')) if t]
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> If split was a bit smarter...
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>    text.split(pattern=(' *\n+ *'))
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> ;-)
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> It can be done with the re module, but I need to look that up each time I
> use it since I don't use it enough to remember all it's subtleties.
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> Ron
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