wheres pythonmonks wrote:
This should be trivial:
I am looking to extract the first non-None element in a list, and
"None" otherwise. Here's one implementation:
x = reduce(lambda x,y: x or y, [None,None,1,None,2,None], None)
print x
1
I thought maybe a generator expression would be better, to prevent
iterating over the whole list:
x = ( x for x in [None,1,2] if x is not None ).next()
print x
1
However, the generator expression throws if the list is entirely None.
With list comprehensions, a solution is:
x = ([ x for x in [None,1,2] if x is not None ] + [ None ] )[0]
But this can be expensive memory wise. Is there a way to concatenate
generator expressions?
More importantly,
Is there a better way? (In one line?)
Thanks,
W
itertools.dropwhile(lambda x: x is None, inlist + [0]).next() or None
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