conditional for-statement

[seb]

On Aug 23, 10:36 pm, seb <sdemen... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 6:18 pm, John Posner <jjpos... at optimum.net> wrote:
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> > >> Hi,
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> > >> i was wondering if there is a syntax alike:
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> > >> for i in range(10) if i > 5:
> > >>     print i
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> > > You can write
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> > > for i in filter(lambda i: i > 5, range(10)):
> > >     print i
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> > > but
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> > > for i in range(10):
> > >     if i > 5:
> > >         print i
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> > > it' better readable, and
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> > > for i in range(6,10):
> > >     print i
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> > > it's event better.
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> > How about using a generator expression instead of a list?
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> >   for i in (x for x in range(10) if x > 5):
> >       print i
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> > -John
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> Indeed, but we could have the same syntax than for generators but
> directly in the for statement as in
> for variable in generator if condition:
>     body
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> Is there a special reason for not doing so ? A rejected PEP ?- Hide quoted text -
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I just found the same thread on the python ideas group at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-April/004278.html

sorry for reposting