else in list comp

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.1043813212.6357.python-list at python.org>,
 Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at attbi.com> wrote:

> Given the list:
> 
> l = ['mary', 'had', 'a', 'little', None]
> 
> it should get mapped to ['mary', 'had', 'a', 'little', '']

[x or '' for x in l]

btw, l is a bad letter to use for a variable name (easy to confuse with 
1 or I or even |).

-- 
David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/