[Tutor] List comprehension for dicts?

[Nitin Das]

result = [i%2 for i in itertools.takewhile(lamda x:i<  10, seq)]
is a good approach but it is taking little more time than the for loop over
iterator.

def takewhile(predicate, iterable):
    # takewhile(lambda x: x<5, [1,4,6,4,1]) --> 1 4
    for x in iterable:
        if predicate(x):
            yield x
        else:
            break

I don't know why? As it seems that this for loop and the other for loop
doing the same thing.

--nitin


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:17 PM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 8/20/2010 5:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:10:59 pm Alan Gauld wrote:
>>
>>> "Steven D'Aprano"<steve at pearwood.info>  wrote
>>>
>>>  the purpose). No matter how fast you can perform a loop, it's
>>>> always faster to avoid it altogether, so this:
>>>>
>>>> seq = xrange(10000000)
>>>> result = []
>>>> for i in seq:
>>>>    if i>= 10: break
>>>>    result.append(i%2)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> will be much faster than this:
>>>>
>>>> seq = xrange(10000000)
>>>> result = [i%2 for i in seq if i<  10]
>>>>
>>> Although it should be pointed out that these are doing very different
>>> things.
>>>
>> Well yes, but I pointed out that you *can* bail out early of for-loops,
>> but not list comprehensions. The whole point is with a list comp,
>> you're forced to iterate over the entire sequence, even if you know
>> that you're done and would like to exit.
>>
>>  Take a look at itertools.takewhile!
>
> result = [i%2 for i in itertools.takewhile(lamda x:i<  10, seq)]
>
>
>
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