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Re: How to write this as a list comprehension?

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for an elegant way to write the following code as a list
> comprehension:
>
> labels = []
> for then, name in mylist:
>     _, mn, dy, _, _, _, wd, _, _ = localtime(then)
>     labels.append(somefunc(mn, day, wd, name))

My recomendation: Don't use a list comprehension.  List comprehensions
and generator expressions are great for quick little things, but
become less readable when you have to string them over multiple
physical lines.

> labels = [somefunc(mn, day, wd, name)
>             for then, name in mylist
>             for _, mn, dy, _, _, _, wd, _, _ in [localtime(then)]]

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How to write this as a list comprehension? Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2014-01-18 00:19 +0100
  Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-01-17 15:49 -0800
  Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-17 19:25 -0800
    Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2014-01-18 11:00 +0100
  Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-18 09:36 +0100
    Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-18 07:20 -0800
      Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2014-01-18 18:00 +0200
        Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.org.uk> - 2014-01-19 23:41 +0000
          Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2014-01-20 12:02 +0100
            Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 03:47 -0800
  Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? matej@ceplovi.cz (Matěj Cepl) - 2014-01-18 11:57 +0100
  Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-01-18 12:53 +0100
    Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2014-01-18 18:40 +0100
  Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? John Allsup <pydev@allsup.co> - 2014-01-19 01:24 +0000
    Re: How to write this as a list comprehension? Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2014-01-19 23:06 +0100

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