Better solution

[Michael Hudson]

"Bo M. Maryniuck" <b.maryniuk at forbis.lt> writes:

> On Tuesday 20 August 2002 17:39, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > >   [x for x in lst if x]
> > If you want to mutate the list, I'd say:
> > lst[:] = filter(None, lst)
> > is better than the monstrosity above.
> 
> Hmm... why the mostrosity? Is this example code is too ugly?
> >>> [x for x in ['', 'a', 'b','!', 'c'] if x not in ['!', '']]       
> ['a', 'b', 'c']

Oh, not *that* monstrosity, this one:

lst = ['', 'a', '', 'b', 'c', '', 'd']
map(lambda z:lst.pop(lst.index('')), range(0, lst.count('')))

I realise what I wrote was a tad confusing.

> Also what is [:]?

A slice.

Cheers,
M.

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