list comprehension

[Tim Roberts]

Guy Robinson <guy at NOSPAM.r-e-d.co.nz> wrote:

>This works I was just wondering if something could be written more 
>concisely and hopefully faster:
>
>s = "114320,69808 114272,69920 113568,71600 113328,72272"
>e = s.split(' ')
>out =''
>for d in e:
>     d =d.split(',')
>     out +='%s,%d ' %(d[0],-int(d[1]))
>print out

Well, why not the more obvious:  s.replace(',',',-')
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