FW: list reduction

[Stephen Thorne]

I think you mean,

newlist = [y for y in industrylist if y.cap < x]

otherwise you've got a list of caps, not a list of objects with the
cap attribute.


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:10:31 -0800, James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
> newlist = [y.cap for y in industrylist if y.cap < x]
> 
> On Thursday 10 March 2005 12:00 pm, Leeds, Mark wrote:
> > I have a structure in python that I think is a list
> >
> > with elements .Cap and .Ticker
> >
> > where Cap is a float and Ticker is string.
> >
> >
> >
> > So, I reference things like
> >
> > industrylist[i].cap and industrylist[i].ticker
> >
> > and this works fine.
> >
> >
> >
> > What I want to do is reduce the list
> >
> > so that it only keeps elements of the list
> >
> > for which the cap is less than x where x is known ?
> >
> >
> >
> > I think I need to use filter and lambda but
> >
> > i've looked in the documentation
> >
> > and I haven't been able to figure out
> >
> > how to use it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Apologies if this is a bad question.
> >
> >
> >
> >                                     Thanks
> 
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Stephen Thorne
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