I'm starting to think like a Pythonista

[Erik Jones]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 2:51 PM, brad wrote:

> I was looking at a way to implement Ruby's upto method in python. I  
> came
> up with the code below... three years ago, I would never have  
> thought of
> list comprehension, today it seems second nature. This may be totally
> un-Pythonic, but I thought it was kind of clever. Man, for some  
> reason,
> I feel like being rude and lofty acting :)
>
> low_odds = [1,3,5,7,9]
> # make a list containing 10 - 98 evens only
> big_evens =  big_evens = [x for x in list(xrange(99)) if x % 2 == 0  
> and
> x >8]

big_evens = range(10, 100, 2)

>
> low_evens = [2,4,6,8]
> # make a list containing 11 - 99 odds only
> big_odds = [x for x in list(xrange(100)) if x % 2 != 0 and x >9]

big_odds = range(11, 100, 2)


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