[Tutor] Tweaking list comprehensions

[Kent Johnson]

Liam Clarke wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I am fine tuning list comprehensions (at least my understandng
> thereof), and I'm not near a Python interpreter at the moment, so I
> was wondering if someone could tell me if I did OK -
> 
> def approachA(files):
> 
> 	isHTML = []
> 	for filename in files:
> 		if filename.endswith('.htm') or filename.endswith('.html'):
> 			isHTML.append(filename)
> 	return isHTML
> 
> def approachB(files):
> 
> 	isHTML = [filename if filename.endswith('.htm') or\
>  		  filename.endswith(.html') for filename in files] 
> 	return isHTML

Looks good to me.

Kent
> 
> I wanted approachB to be the list comprehension verstion of approachA.
> Did I get the syntax right? All seems somewhat back to front to me,
> although when read the comprehension does sorta make sense in a
> twisted way.
>