Very newbie programming

[Alexander Schmolck]

TheSaint <fc14301589 at icqmail.com> writes:

> # Filling the c with the list of devices which are recorded to be mounted
> 
> d = filter((lambda a: a[:2] =='/d'),mnt.readlines()) # non /dev-mounts are
> off
> d = map((lambda a: a.split()[:1]),d) # only the first info column is used

Just focusing one one detail:

1. you don't need the parens around the lambda

2. you can just write the above as

d = [a.split()[:1] for a in mnt if a.startswith('/d')]


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