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[Jonathan Hogg]

On 24/1/2002 12:00, in article a2ot19$hg4$1 at serv1.iunet.it, "Alex Martelli"
<aleax at aleax.it> wrote:

> Not sure what you mean.  "get the idx1-th element
> from list llis and remove it from the list too"
> is llis.pop(idx1); is that what you mean by
> "comprehend"?

No, I think he meant "make it into a list comprehension". Perhaps:

    llis = [ x for i, x in zip(xrange(len(lis)), lis) if i <> idx1 ]

Though this is substantially uglier than the original version. It can be
slightly improved in readability with a suitable definition for an indexed
zip (a common operation in functional programming):

    def indexed( items, from=0 ):
        index = from
        for item in items:
            yield index, item
            index += 1

    llis = [ x for i, x in indexed(llis) if i <> idx1 ]

[Has one of these made it into the standard library yet? I know it's a
trivial function, but I think common functions should have a standard name
and exist in a standard place for readability - somewhat related to the
separate factorial discussion going on.]

Jonathan