sort and delete ?

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 30-May-00 matt wrote:
 >  Is there a more "pythonic" way to do the following, which, before I make a
 >  mess
 >  is, suppossed to assess whether to throw elements out of a list and then
 >  actually do so.  I use a rather strange, but database-like, list.
 >  
 >  a = [['egg', [1, 'ace', 3]], ['apple', [1, 'two', 3]], ['pear', [4,
 >  'three',
 >  6]], ['orange', [5, 'two', 1]]]
 >  
 >  x=[]
 >  for i in a:
 >      if i[0][1] in ('ace','three'):
 >              x.append(i)

First of all, I think you meant i[1][1] above. I am an addict under the
lambda-forms, so I would do it using filter:

x = filter(lambda i:i[1][1] in ('ace','three'),a)

Cheers,

/Mikael

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