Selecting elements from a list

[David C. Fox]

Martin Christensen wrote:
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> Howdy!
> 
> Suppose I have a list A containing elements that I want to put into
> list B if they satisfy some property. The obvious way of doing it
> would be,
> 
> B = []
> for i in A:
>     if A.property():
>        B.append(i)
> 
> Now, list comprehensions, map() etc. can make a lot of list operations
> easier, but I haven't found a shorter, more elegant way of doing this.
> Have I missed something, or will I have to stick to my explicit loops?
> 
> Martin
> 

B = filter(lambda x: x.property(), A)

David