FW: list reduction

[James Stroud]

newlist = [y.cap for y in industrylist if y.cap < x]

On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:00 pm, Leeds, Mark wrote:
> I have a structure in python that I think is a list
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> with elements .Cap and .Ticker
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> where Cap is a float and Ticker is string.
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> So, I reference things like
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> industrylist[i].cap and industrylist[i].ticker
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> and this works fine.
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> What I want to do is reduce the list
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> so that it only keeps elements of the list
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> for which the cap is less than x where x is known ?
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> I think I need to use filter and lambda but
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> i've looked in the documentation
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> and I haven't been able to figure out
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> how to use it.
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> Apologies if this is a bad question.
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>                                     Thanks

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