Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: filter a list of strings Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 10:27:19 +0100 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de dzzOMHxtaQvkPeS4qPm+JQvoU0EZVXgA47lZogQ1XUWQ== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.064 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.88; '*S*': 0.00; 'that?': 0.05; 'happen.': 0.09; 'received:172.16.0': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'suggestion.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'subject:list': 0.26; 'lot.': 0.29; 'combination': 0.33; 'know.': 0.34; 'list': 0.34; 'item': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'really': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'front': 0.38; 'thank': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'received:de': 0.40; 'from:no real name:2**0': 0.60; 'your': 0.60; 'header:Message-Id:1': 0.61; 'saw': 0.77; 'received:185': 0.91; 'imagine': 0.96 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:99946 Thank you for your suggestion. This will help a lot. On 2015-12-03 08:32 Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > list = [ item for item in list > if ( 'Banana' not in item and > 'Car' not in item ) ] I often saw constructions like this x for x in y if ... But I don't understand that combination of the Python keywords (for, in, if) I allready know. It is to complex to imagine what there really happen. I understand this for x in y: if ... But what is about the 'x' in front of all that? -- GnuPGP-Key ID 0751A8EC