Can this be done with list comprehension?

Lie Lie.1296 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 8 04:58:16 EDT 2008


On Jun 8, 7:27 am, "Terry Reedy" <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> "Karlo Lozovina" <_karlo_ at _mosor.net_> wrote in message
>
> news:Xns9AB7858EC056mosornet at 161.53.160.64...
> | I figured that out few minutes ago, such a newbie mistake :). The fix I
> | came up with is:
> |
> |  result = ['something'] + [someMethod(i) for i in some_list]
> |
> | Are there any other alternatives to this approach?
>
> result = [something]
> result.extend(someMethod(i) for i in some_list)
>
> avoids creating and deleting an intermediate list

or:
result = ['something'].extend(someMethod(i) for i in some_list)

it also avoids intermediate list and is one line.



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