different ways to creating two lists from one
Todd MacCulloch
wtodd.macculloch at sympatico.ca
Wed Oct 29 15:39:17 EST 2003
Suppose I have a master list and I need to create two derived lists,
something like:
s0 = [2,3,4]
s1 = [x + x for x in s0]
s2 = [x * x for x in s0]
But suppose generating s0 is expensive and/or s0 is big. In otherwords I'd
like to go over only once and I don't want to keep it around any longer than
I have to.
I could do something like:
for a, b in [(x + x, x * x) for x in s0]:
s1.append(a)
s2.append(b)
Is there a better / cleaner way that I'm missing?
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