Having both if() and for() statements in one liner

[Dave Angel]

On 17/9/2013 09:21, Ferrous Cranus wrote:


> I just want to say tot he program that
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> that only run the for statement if and only if person=='George'
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> I dont see nay reason as to why this fails
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> perhaps like:
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> for times in range(0, 5) if person=='George':
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> but that fails too...
> there must be written on soem way.
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>

untested:

for times in range(0, 5 if person=="George" else 0):

But i also greately prefer the canonical version.

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DaveA