GOTCHA with list comprehension
Pavel S
pavel at schon.cz
Wed Aug 5 03:03:29 EDT 2015
It seems this is allowed by the grammar:
list_display ::= "[" [expression_list | list_comprehension] "]"
list_comprehension ::= expression list_for
list_for ::= "for" target_list "in" old_expression_list [list_iter]
old_expression_list ::= old_expression [("," old_expression)+ [","]]
old_expression ::= or_test | old_lambda_expr
list_iter ::= list_for | list_if
list_if ::= "if" old_expression [list_iter]
So chaining multiple ifs is fine:
[ i for i in range(10) if True if True if True if True ]
Dne středa 5. srpna 2015 8:49:20 UTC+2 Pavel S napsal(a):
> Hi,
>
> I recently found interesting GOTCHA while doing list comprehension in python 2.6:
>
> >>> values = ( True, False, 1, 2, 3, None )
> >>> [ value for value in values if value if not None ]
> [True, 1, 2, 3]
>
> I was wondering why this list comprehension returns incorrect results and finally found a typo in the condition. The typo wasn't visible at the first look.
>
> My intention was: if value is not None
> But I wrote: if value if not None
>
> Is that a language feature of list comprehension that it accepts conditions like: if A if B if C if D ...?
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