multiple sequences to filter()

Gerald Stedile gerald at proceryon.at
Thu Aug 24 06:43:02 EDT 2000


Hi Ben,

I think you need to be a little more specific on the output you expect.
Maybe the 'map()' function is what you really want (Some examples would
help).

Ben Wolfson wrote:
> 
> I often find myself trying to do something like this:
> 
> list1, list2 = filter(lambda x,y: x==y, list1, list2)
> 
> Which, of course, does not work, even though it seems like a natural thing
> to do.
> What is the reason for its illegality?

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