"For" loop and list comprehension similarity

John Zenger john_zenger at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 26 18:15:42 EST 2006


Rather than a list comprehension, it would be faster and more 
memory-efficient to use a generator comprehension.  Just change the 
square brackets to parentheses:

     for j in (i*2 for i in c if <test>):
        print j


Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2006-03-26, s.lipnevich at gmail.com <s.lipnevich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I apologize if this was brought up before, I couldn't find any "prior
>>art" :-).
>>On more than one occasion, I found myself wanting to use a "conditional
>>loop" like this (with "Invalid syntax" error, of course):
>>
>>	for i in c if <test>:
>>		print i*2
>>
>>...because it's similar to the list comprehension construct:
>>
>>	[i*2 for i in c if <test>]
>>                        ---------
>>
>>Is this the intended difference in constructs? The available equivalent
>>feels a bit awkward:
>>
>>	for i in c:
>>		if <test>:
>>			print i*2
> 
> 
>    for j in [i*2 for i in c if <test>]:
>       print j
> 



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