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

[Chris Rebert]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Mathias
Panzenböck<grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net> wrote:
> You could write:
> [x|y <- l, x <- [f(y)], x > 0]
>
> Oh, wait. Thats Haskell. And even in haskell you would write:
> [x|x <- map f l, x > 0]
>
> In Python you can write:
> [x for x in map(f,l) if x > 0]
>
> In Python 2.x you may want to write:
> from itertools import imap
> [x for x in imap(f,l) if x > 0]
>
> A more SQL like approach that would fit somewhat with pythons syntax would
> be (as you can see its exactly the same lengths as the above but needs a new
> name):
> [f(x) as y for x in l if y > 0]
>
> Because in SQL you can write (IIRC):
> select f(x) as y from l where y > 0;
>
> Maybe something like .Nets LINQ would be a nice idea to integrate in python?

Comprehensions and generator expressions already give us most of the
LINQ functionality. Add in `list()` and the ability to `.sort()` lists
with a `key` argument and you have the entire thing, except for the
one corner case being discussed. Unless I've overlooked something...

Cheers,
Chris
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