a list/re problem

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-12-11, Ed Keith <e_d_k at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a problem and I am trying to find a solution to it that is both 
> efficient and elegant.
>
> I have a list call it 'l':
>
> l = ['asc', '*nbh*', 'jlsdjfdk', 'ikjh', '*jkjsdfjasd*', 'rewr']

> Notice that some of the items in the list start and end with
> an '*'. I wish to construct a new list, call it 'n' which is
> all the members of l that start and end with '*', with the
> '*'s removed.
>
> So in the case above n would be ['nbh', 'jkjsdfjasd']

[s[1:-1] for s in l if (s[0] == s[-1] == '*')]

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