"For" loop and list comprehension similarity

[Terry Reedy]

"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message 
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> s.lipnevich at gmail.com wrote:
>> Do you think this discussion is a proof that the following principle
>> got violated, or do you think that "loop with condition" is not such an
>> atomic thing to be subject to this: "There should be one -- and
>> preferably only one -- obvious way to do it."
>
> Mitja's suggestion was the one obvious way.  The others are all
> interesting, maybe even preferable in some cases, but I don't think most
> experienced Python programmers would be more likely to start with one of
> them than with the simple for-loop-with-explicit-test.

If by 'explicit-test' you mean a nested if-statement, then I agree.  When I 
mentioned filter() as one way to avoid the obvious, I was aware that it 
creates an intermediate list that is usually not needed.  (And if it is 
needed, then it should be name-assigned before the loop.)

Terry Jan Reedy