[Python-ideas] for-loop-if like list comps have?

[Christopher Welborn]

mylist = ['apple', 'banana', 'orange', 'grapefruit']

# Why is this okay...
     for item in [x for x in mylist if 'p' in x]:
         print(item)

# But this isn't?
     for item in mylist if 'p' in item:
     SyntaxError: invalid syntax

# Instead you have to do another nesting level..
     for item in mylist:
         if 'p' in item:
             print(item)

# Or another way.
     for item in mylist:
         if 'p' not in item:
             continue
         print(item)

...And there is 'filter', 'lambdas', and whatever else
to achieve the same result. But the list comprehension
is already closely related to a for-loop, and it seems
natural to go from:
     [x for x in mylist if x]
to:
     for x in mylist if x:

Just an idea, sorry if it has been mentioned before.

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