Selecting elements from a list

**Mike C. Fletcher** · Jul 18 '05, 02:16 AM

Re: Selecting elements from a list

Martin Christensen wrote:
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>B = []
>for i in A:
> if A.property():
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B = [ i for i in A if i.property() ]

Seems elegant, but then I'd like dictionary-comps if they came along,
Mike

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**David C. Fox** · Jul 18 '05, 02:17 AM

Re: Selecting elements from a list

Martin Christensen wrote:[color=blue]
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> Howdy!
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> Suppose I have a list A containing elements that I want to put into
> list B if they satisfy some property. The obvious way of doing it
> would be,
>
> B = []
> for i in A:
> if A.property():
> B.append(i)
>
> Now, list comprehensions, map() etc. can make a lot of list operations
> easier, but I haven't found a shorter, more elegant way of doing this.
> Have I missed something, or will I have to stick to my explicit loops?
>
> Martin
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B = filter(lambda x: x.property(), A)

David

**Jeremy Jones** · Jul 18 '05, 02:17 AM

Re: Selecting elements from a list

* Duncan Smith (buzzard@urubu. freeserve.co.uk ) wrote:[color=blue]
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> "Martin Christensen" <knightsofspama lot-factotum@gvdnet .dk> wrote in message
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> > Howdy!
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> > Suppose I have a list A containing elements that I want to put into
> > list B if they satisfy some property. The obvious way of doing it
> > would be,
> >
> > B = []
> > for i in A:
> > if A.property():
> > B.append(i)
> >
> > Now, list comprehensions, map() etc. can make a lot of list operations
> > easier, but I haven't found a shorter, more elegant way of doing this.
> > Have I missed something, or will I have to stick to my explicit loops?
> >
> > Martin
> >[/color]
>
> Is this the sort of thing you mean?
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> A = [0, 1, 2, 'four', 'five', 6.0]
> >>> [x for x in A if isinstance(x, str)][/color][/color]
> ['four', 'five'][color=green][color=darkred]
> >>>[/color][/color]
>[/color]

filter() works well as well:

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>>> foo[/color][/color][/color]
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9][color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> filter(lambda x: x > 4, foo)[/color][/color][/color]
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Jeremy Jones

**Martin Christensen** · Jul 18 '05, 02:17 AM

Re: Selecting elements from a list

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David> B = filter(lambda x: x.property(), A)

Now, if I'd paid better attention to the library documentation.. . :-)

Martin

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**Michael Peuser** · Jul 18 '05, 02:17 AM

Re: Selecting elements from a list

"Martin Christensen" <knightsofspama lot-factotum@gvdnet .dk> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:87y8x4w6ym .fsf@gvdnet.dk. ..[color=blue]
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> Howdy!
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> Suppose I have a list A containing elements that I want to put into
> list B if they satisfy some property. The obvious way of doing it
> would be,
>
> B = []
> for i in A:
> if A.property():
> B.append(i)
>
> Now, list comprehensions, map() etc. can make a lot of list operations
> easier, but I haven't found a shorter, more elegant way of doing this.
> Have I missed something, or will I have to stick to my explicit loops?[/color]

from random import random
rowA1 =[random()]*100000; rowA2=[random()]*100000
rowB1 = rowA1[:]; rowB2 =rowA2[:]
rowC1 = rowA1[:]; rowC2 =rowA2[:]

def A(row1,row2):
for x in row2:
if x<0.5:
row1.append(x)

def B(row1, row2):
row1 += filter(lambda x: x<0.5,row2)

def C(row1, row2):
row1 += [x for x in row2 if x<0.5]

def main():
A(rowA1,rowA2)
B(rowB1,rowB2)
C(rowC1,rowC2)

profile.run("ma in()")
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Kindly
Michael P

**Duncan Smith** · Jul 18 '05, 02:18 AM

Re: Selecting elements from a list

Martin,
Computer Science at Aalborg I see. A Bayes net man perchance? I
hope Uffe, Kristian et al are well. :-)

Duncan

**Martin Christensen** · Jul 18 '05, 02:18 AM

Re: Selecting elements from a list

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Duncan> Computer Science at Aalborg I see. A Bayes net man perchance?
Duncan> I hope Uffe, Kristian et al are well. :-)

Haha! If you're talking about the guys I'm thinking of, I just came
home from a lovely Friday afternoon beer with them. :-) And yes, I
happen to be doing a project involving Bayesian networks, but I'm
originally a database guy. To keep it relevant, I did my masters
thesis implementation stuff in Python and am very happy I did.

Martin

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**Duncan Smith** · Jul 18 '05, 02:18 AM

Re: Selecting elements from a list

"Martin Christensen" <knightsofspama lot-factotum@gvdnet .dk> wrote in message
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> >>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Smith <buzzard@urubu. freeserve.co.uk > writes:[/color][/color]
> Duncan> Computer Science at Aalborg I see. A Bayes net man perchance?
> Duncan> I hope Uffe, Kristian et al are well. :-)
>
> Haha! If you're talking about the guys I'm thinking of, I just came
> home from a lovely Friday afternoon beer with them. :-) And yes, I
> happen to be doing a project involving Bayesian networks, but I'm
> originally a database guy. To keep it relevant, I did my masters
> thesis implementation stuff in Python and am very happy I did.
>
> Martin
>[/color]

Yes, messrs. Kjaerulff and Olesen. All my Bayes net stuff is in Python. I
must tidy it up (and rewrite my Digraph class) so I can make it available.

Duncan

**Martin Christensen** · Jul 18 '05, 02:18 AM

Re: Selecting elements from a list

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>>>>> "Duncan" == Duncan Smith <buzzard@urubu. freeserve.co.uk > writes:[/color][/color][/color]
Duncan> Yes, messrs. Kjaerulff and Olesen.

Then I'm afraid that we were talking about different people, and these
people are probably less likely to run about getting wet on random
Fridays. :-) They're swell people, though, or at least Kristian is, in
my experience (only know Uffe by sight, hardly even voice). Oh well,
it was still amusing despite the Fates not playing _that_ much with
us.

Martin

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