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Subject: Re: Split a list into two parts based on a filter?
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:22:53 +0200
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Peter Otten schreef:
> Fábio Santos wrote:
> 
>> On 10 Jun 2013 23:54, "Roel Schroeven" <roel@roelschroeven.net> wrote:
>>> You could do something like:
>>>
>>> new_songs, old_songs = [], []
>>> [(new_songs if s.is_new() else old_songs).append(s) for s in songs]
>>>
>>> But I'm not sure that that's any better than the long version.
>> This is so beautiful!
> 
> It makes me cringe. 
> 
> This code does spurious work to turn what is naturally written as a for loop 
> into a list comprehension that is thrown away immediately. 

I agree. I see two problems with it: it's not very readable or pythonic, 
and it creates a list that is not needed and is immediately thrown away.

I wrote that code just to see if I could make it work that way. In real 
code I would never write it that way, let's make that clear :)


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