I posted this code last night in response to another thread, and after I
posted it I got to wondering if I had misused the list comprehension. Here's
the two examples:
Example 1:
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def compress(s):
new = []
for c in s:
if c not in new:
new.append(c)
return ''.join(new)
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Example 2:
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def compress(s):
new = []
[new.append(c) for c in s if c not in new]
return ''.join(new)
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In example 1, the intention to make an in-place change is explicit, and it's
being used as everyone expects it to be used. In example 2, however, I began
to think this might be an abuse of list comprehensions, because I'm not
assigning the result to anything (nor am I even using the result in any
way).
What does everyone think about this? Should list comprehensions be used this
way, or should they only be used to actually create a new list that will
then be assigned to a variable/returned/etc.?
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