Seebs wrote:
I have an existing hunk of Makefile code: CPPFLAGS = "$(filter -D* -I* -i* -U*,$(TARGET_CFLAGS))" For those not familiar with GNU makeisms, this means "assemble a string which consists of all the words in $(TARGET_CFLAGS) which start with one of -D, -I, -i, or -U". So if you give it foo -Ibar baz it'll say -IbarI have a similar situation in a Python context, and I am wondering whether this is an idiomatic spelling: ' '.join([x for x in target_cflags.split() if re.match('^-[DIiU]', x)]) This appears to do the same thing, but is it an idiomatic use of list comprehensions, or should I be breaking it out into more bits? You will note that of course, I have carefully made it a one-liner so I don't have to worry about indentation*. -s [*] Kidding, I just thought this seemed like a pretty clear expression.
One pythonic way to do it, is to use an option parser. optparse (or argparse if python > 2.7) JM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
