[Tutor] list comprehension with else
Sydney Shall
s.shall at virginmedia.com
Sun Jan 18 14:37:47 CET 2015
On 18/01/2015 13:20, Sydney Shall wrote:
> I am a beginner and I have a question of syntax.
>
> I am just learning to use list comprehension, which oc course, I find
> very helpful indeed.
>
> However, I am stuck with a specific problem of how to incorporate an
> else in a list comp-rehension. I cannot do it.
>
> The following snippet of code does what I need. But, perhaps I am
> solving this math error problem incorrectly.
> The problem is I am occasionally getting exactly zeros when I need to
> obtain the logarithm of the number.
>
> for i in range(len(cap)):
> if cap[i] == 0.0:
> tmp = math.log(1.0)
> lncap.append(tmp)
> else:
> lncap.append(math.log(cap[i]))
>
> I have set mu options to plain text.
I apoligise. I should have added:
MAC OS OSX 10.9.5
python 2.7.6 (Enthought)
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Sydney
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