On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:14:05 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > J Kenneth King <ja...@agentultra.com> writes: > >> Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> writes: >> >> > from operator import add >> > map(add, operandlist1, operandlist2) >> >> This is the best solution so far. > > Strange to say it's a solution, when it doesn't solve the stated > problem: to replace use of ‘map()’ with a list comprehension.
In context, I wasn't giving that as a replacement for map(), but as a replacement for map-with-a-lambda. >> I understand the OP was asking for it, but list comprehensions aren't >> the best solution in this case... it would just be line noise. > > I disagree; a list comprehension is often clearer than use of ‘map()’ > with a lambda form, and I find it to be so in this case. You obviously don't do enough functional programming :) Apart from an occasional brain-fart where I conflate map() with filter(), I find them perfectly readable and sensible. The only advantages to list comps are you can filter results with an if clause, and for simple expressions you don't need to create a function. They're non-trivial advantages, but for me readability isn't one of them. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list