Best way to deal with different data types in a list comprehension

[Chris Kaynor]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have some code that I inherited:
>
> ' '.join([self.get_abbrev()] +
>            [str(f['value')
>             for f in self.filters
>             if f.has_key('value')]).strip()
>

> This broke today when it encountered some non-ascii data.
>

One option would be to do the processing in unicode, and convert to utf-8
only when needed:

u' '.join([self.get_abbrev()] +
           [unicode(f['value')
            for f in self.filters
            if f.has_key('value')]).strip()

If needed, add a .encode('utf-8') to the end.


>
> I changed the str(f['value']) line to f['value'].encode('utf-8'),
> which works fine, except when f['value'] is not a string (it could be
> anything).
>
> Without rewriting this without the list comprehension, how can I write
> this to deal with both strings and non-strings?
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