What is the most efficient way to do this?

MDK mdk at mdk.com
Fri Feb 8 15:13:07 EST 2002


"Mark McEahern" <marklists at mceahern.com> wrote in message
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> [MDK]
> > What is the most efficient way to remove empty items from this list?
> >
> > ['', '1', '2', '3', '', '456', '789', 'wow']
>
> Try filter:
>
> >>> l = ['', '1', '2', '3', '', '456', '789', 'wow']
> >>> filter(None, l)
> ['1', '2', '3', '456', '789', 'wow']
>

Very nice.  Thanks!





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