Removing null items

[Gaetan Corneau]

Take a look at the filter built-in function.

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   Gaetan Corneau
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sragsdale at my-deja.com [mailto:sragsdale at my-deja.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 2:06 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Removing null items
> 
> 
> So I've got a very simple desire: to remove all false (I.E. 
> None, 0, '',
> []) items from a list.
> 
> As it is I've got this function which works fine, but it offends my
> sight.  Is there any better (or at least different) way to do this?
> 
> #################################################################
> # return non-null items from the first list
> def foo(lst):
>     rlist = []
>     for i in lst:
>         if i:
>             rlist.append(i)
>     return rlist
> 
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