"For" loop and list comprehension similarity

[Terry Reedy]

<s.lipnevich at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> Why not combine the two:
>
> I guess because (at least in source code) you're doing a loop twice
> :-). I don't know what a compiler would do. I think though that the
> "for i in c if test:" construct is more readable and maybe can even be
> better optimized.

 There are also the filter and ifilter functions:

for i in filter(testfunc, c):

tjr