do this with list comp?
John Hunter
jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu
Fri Dec 12 11:46:58 EST 2003
I want to replace all empty fields in a CSV line with 'NULL'.
Here is a brute force way
def fixline(line):
ret = []
for s in line.split(','):
if not len(s): ret.append('NULL')
else: ret.append(s)
return ret
line = 'John,Bill,,,Fred'
print fixline(line)
# ['John', 'Bill', 'NULL', 'NULL', 'Fred']
I am wondering if there is a way to do it with list comprehensions. I
know how I would do it with a ternary operator.....
John Hunter
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