looping through lists

[Alex Martelli]

saoirse_79 wrote:

> Thank you for your help its been great. One last
>  question now that im on a roll!!
>> > Now that I have gotten my list looking like this
>> > ('-', 'K', 'S', 'A', 'K')
>> > ('-', '-', '-', 'L', 'Q')
>> > ('K', 'L', 'S', 'P', 'E')
>> > ('-', '-', '-', 'L', 'Q')
>> > ('T', 'L', 'E', 'E', 'L')
>> > I want to count the lists that dont contain a '-'.
>> > is this possible!!
>> > Orla

Look like tuples to me.  Anyway,

sum([ '-' not in sublist for sublist in listoflists])

or

len([sublist for sublist in listoflists if '-' not in sublist])

might be what you want.


Alex