Iterating across a filtered list

Drew olsonas at gmail.com
Tue Mar 13 14:04:50 EDT 2007


All -

I'm currently writing a toy program as I learn python that acts as a
simple address book. I've run across a situation in my search function
where I want to iterate across a filtered list. My code is working
just fine, but I'm wondering if this is the most "elegant" way to do
this. Essentially, I'm searching the dict self.contacts for a key that
matches the pattern entered by the user. If so, I print the value
associated with that key. A pastie to the method is below, any help/
advice is appreciated:

http://pastie.caboo.se/46647

Side note: I'm learning python after ruby experience. In ruby I would
do something like:

contacts.find_all{|name,contact| name =~ /search/}.each{|name,contact|
puts contact}




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