list comprehension problem

[Ben Finney]

Paul Rudin <paul.nospam at rudin.co.uk> writes:

> Falcolas <garrickp at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > [s.strip() for s in hosts if s.strip()]
>
> There's something in me that rebels against seeing the same call
> twice.

Agreed. I'd probably use:

    >>> lines = ["foo", "   ", " bar ", "", "baz"]
    >>> [s for s in (s.strip() for s in lines) if s]
    ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']

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