[Pythonmac-SIG] If/else vs or

[Christopher Barker]

On 10/29/10 7:56 AM, Dan Ross wrote:
 > I've been trying to use more list comprehensions recently.

ahh -- then you want something like:

In [15]: colors = ['red','green','blue','orange','fuchsia','black','white']

In [16]: subset = ['red','green','blue','purple']

In [17]: [c for c in colors if c in subset]

Out[17]: ['red', 'green', 'blue']


(so much for one obvious way to do it!)

-Chris


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