[Python-ideas] Accessing the result of comprehension's expression from the conditional

[Aahz]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009, Lie Ryan wrote:
>
> In list/generator comprehension, currently we have no way to access the
> result of the expression and have to write something like this:
> 
> [f(x) for x in l if f(x) > 0]
> 
> if f() is heavy or non-pure (i.e. have side effects), calling f() twice
> might be undesirable.

Listcomps and genexps are like lambdas: run up against their limits and
you should switch to a regular for loop or generator.
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