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Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists?

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In <cf007146-3a08-44c4-bf01-d1a9253c83e3@o19g2000vbk.googlegroups.com> JoeM <josephmeiring@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks guys, I was just looking for a one line solution instead of a
> for loop if possible. Why do you consider

> [x.remove(x[0]) for x in [a,b,c]]

> cheating? It seems compact and elegant enough for me.

I wouldn't call it cheating, but that solution does a fair bit of
unneccessary work (creating a list comprehension that is never used.)

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Extracting elements over multiple lists? JoeM <josephmeiring@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 09:12 -0800
  Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-11-07 17:37 +0000
  Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 18:44 +0100
    Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? JoeM <josephmeiring@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 10:01 -0800
      Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-11-07 18:22 +0000
        Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-11-07 19:06 -0500
      Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-11-07 19:33 +0100
      Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2011-11-07 19:51 +0100
      Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2011-11-07 15:06 -0500
      Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 08:07 +0100
      RE: Extracting elements over multiple lists? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2011-11-15 17:01 +0000
        Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-11-15 22:21 +0000
      Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2011-11-15 13:17 -0500
      Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-11-16 06:53 +1100
        Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-11-15 22:25 +0000
          Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-11-16 09:54 +1100
    Re: Extracting elements over multiple lists? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-11-07 19:06 +0100

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